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About 16 Gainsborough Road
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
16 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.
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
16 Gainsborough Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E43
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
13.7 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against 16 Gainsborough Road, Ipswich, IP4 2UR, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
Planning history at 16 Gainsborough Road is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
- Oct 2016Tree WorksTreesPending
To reduce the canopy of two Silver Birch trees by 15%.
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£590,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
Last sold (2022)
£650,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
Launch offer · 33% off
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Versus other Gainsborough Road homes
Four headline reads against 8 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
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
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Ipswich district page.
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.
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around IP4 2UR from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.7dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 61 points of interest in total.
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