8 Browns Close, Hitcham, Ipswich, IP7 7NP

8 Browns Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Hitcham, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP7 7NP). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2018) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 110 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £471,000 is 10.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£359/sq ft) was about 63.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £425,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.