Spring Cottage, Brent Eleigh Road, Monks Eleigh, Ipswich, IP7 7JG

Spring Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Monks Eleigh, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7JG). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2011) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 130 m² it's 16.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (155 m² median across 8 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 12 planning records sit against the property, 11 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension 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. 9 years since the last transfer (February 2017). Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1998–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £737,000 is 31.6% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£400/sq ft) was about 47.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.