Rookery Farm, Manor Road, Elmsett, Ipswich, IP7 6PN

Rookery Farm is a detached house in Elmsett, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 6PN). It has a recorded floor area of 329 m² (around 3541 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 42). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 329 m² the property is well over the postcode median (150 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 12 planning records sit against the property, 12 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2020–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 44% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£181/sq ft) was about 150.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £640,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.