9 Chapel Street, Bildeston, Ipswich, IP7 7EP

9 Chapel Street is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Bildeston, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7EP). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in October 2008 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 66), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (113 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£291/sq ft) was about 44% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £463,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.