Millstone Cottage, The Street, Chelsworth, Ipswich, IP7 7HU

Millstone Cottage is a detached house in Chelsworth, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7HU). It has a recorded floor area of 145 m² (around 1561 sq ft). The latest certificate (October 2017) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Main heating runs on lpg.

Held since July 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £802,000 sits 135.9% above the 2000 sale of £340,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£218/sq ft) was about 17% below the postcode norm. At 145 m² it's 28.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (204 m² median across 11 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 82% of similar EPCs).