1 Lower Farm Cottages, Norwich Road, Barham, Ipswich, IP6 0NU

1 Lower Farm Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Barham, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP6 0NU). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 71 m² it sits well below the postcode median (212 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £299,000 is 18.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£329/sq ft) was about 100.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £251,500 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.