Ladys Cottage, The Green, Naughton, Ipswich, IP7 7BT

Ladys Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Naughton, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7BT). It has a recorded floor area of 182 m² (around 1959 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory, new windows and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 182 m² it sits well below the postcode median (283 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 2016–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£350/sq ft) was about 70% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £685,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.