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Get started16 Gainsborough Road is a semi-detached house in Ipswich (IP4 2UR). It has a recorded floor area of 209 m² (around 2250 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump.
At 209 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 147.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
16 Gainsborough Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Planning history at 16 Gainsborough Road is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
To reduce the canopy of two Silver Birch trees by 15%.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£590,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£650,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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EPC Rating for 16 Gainsborough Road lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,110
Street avg £2,377
Floor Area
209 m²
Street avg 185 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
9/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Park Gates — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.7dB

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Reduction of canopy of 2x Silver Birch by 15% - one on Constable Road frontage, one on Gainsborough Road.
2 more applications for this property
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11 May 2022Most recent
£650,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP4 2UR: £430,000 (2025–2013).
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Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
13.7 t/year
Street avg 9.1 t/year
IP4 2TS
Closest school
0.7 km
St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Ipswich. 31 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.1dB