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Get started7 Princes Gardens is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Lower Somersham, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP8 4PF). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).
3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 104 m² it's 20.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 9 EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£272/sq ft) was about 69.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £305,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
Extension: Single storey · Front of property
Householder Application - Erection of an extension to the front elevation on the first floor
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£325,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£305,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Years Held for 7 Princes Gardens lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,933
Street avg £2,179
Floor Area
104 m²
Street avg 94 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.2dB

Extension: Rear of property
Householder Planning Application - Erection of single storey rear extension following demoltion of conservatiory and alterations and extension to porch
1 more application for this property
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8 December 2022Most recent
£305,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IP8 4PF: £250,000 (2022–2019).
9 Princes Gardens Lower Somersham Ipswich
Sold Sept 2022
14 Princes Gardens Lower Somersham Ipswich
Sold Jul 2022
5 Princes Gardens Lower Somersham Ipswich
Sold Sept 2020
23 Princes Gardens Lower Somersham Ipswich
Sold Nov 2019
4 Princes Gardens Lower Somersham Ipswich
Sold Nov 2015
CO₂ Emissions
3.8 t/year
Street avg 4.6 t/year
IP8 4PX
Springfield Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Somersham Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB
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