4 Benton Street, Hadleigh, Ipswich, IP7 5AT

4 Benton Street is a four-bedroom detached house in Hadleigh, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 5AT). It has a recorded floor area of 232 m² (around 2497 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £687,000 is 15.7% below the 2022 sale of £815,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£326/sq ft) was about 88.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 232 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold September 2022 for £815,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.