Rookery Cottage, City Lane, Colmworth, Bedford, MK44 2LE
About Rookery Cottage
Rookery Cottage is a detached house in Colmworth, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 2LE). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
Held since August 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £341,000 sits 289.7% above the 2000 sale of £87,500. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.
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Trends
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Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
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Planning history
Rookery Cottage has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
- Dec 2007ConditionsIn report
Replacement of cement render with lime plaster to front elevation. Discharge of condition 2 of planning permission 07/02427/LBC - (sample and details of proposed lime plaster)
- Reference
- 07/03378/AOC
- Oct 2007RenovationHeritageIn report
Replacement of cement render with lime plaster to front elevation.
- Documents
- 2 docs on file
- Reference
- 07/02427/LBC
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Sales history & valuation
Rookery Cottage's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (2000).
£341,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£87,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
15 August 2000Most recent
£87,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in MK44 2LE: £353,000 (2024–2001).
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Sold May 2004
£249,000The Old Barn, City Lane, Colmworth, Bedford, MK44 2LE
Sold Feb 2001
£320,000
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
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- Larger development activity nearby
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
6/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Little Staughton Road — bus stop.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.5dB