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1 planning record
About 1 Rivers Farm Cottage
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
1 Rivers Farm Cottage is a semi-detached house in Sproughton, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP8 3AP). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump.
At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (51 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £550,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
D63
E
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Average
Windows
Good
CO2 Emissions
5.9 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against 1 Rivers Farm Cottage, High Street, Sproughton, Ipswich, IP8 3AP, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
- Apr 2004FullGranted
Use of caravan as dwelling for a temporary period of two years.
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£562,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
Last sold (2022)
£550,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
Versus other High Street homes
Four headline reads against 3 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
1 Rivers Farm Cottage outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
63 (D)
Street avg 58 (D)
Floor Area
140 m²
Street avg 93 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.9 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
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Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.6 km
Beagle — bus stop.
Road noise across the postcode
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Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
54.0dB
Everything within walking distance
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