Crooked Acres, Stoke Road, Layham, Ipswich, IP7 5RB

Crooked Acres is a four-bedroom detached house in Layham, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 5RB). It has a recorded floor area of 300 m² (around 3229 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in April 2010 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

Held since August 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 300 m² the property is well over the postcode median (101 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2003–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £870,000 sits 57.3% above the 2010 sale of £553,000. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.