School House, The Causeway, Hitcham, Ipswich, IP7 7NF

School House is a six-bedroom detached house in Hitcham, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7NF). It has a recorded floor area of 258 m² (around 2777 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a G (score 3), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 258 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £598,000 sits 63.8% above the 2021 sale of £365,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£131/sq ft) was about 31.6% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £365,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.