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2 planning records
About Christmas Cottage
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
Christmas Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Alby, Norwich, Norwich (NR11 7PJ). It has a recorded floor area of 137 m² (around 1475 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 91), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 137 m² it's 29.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 7 EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£359/sq ft) was about 20.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2022 at £530,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
What this property has
Pulled from EPC certificates, claim submissions and our property model. Empty categories are hidden — we only show what's known.
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms2
Outside
- Private gardenYes
- Cul-de-sac
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Christmas Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E45
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Oil
Hot Water
Average
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
8.2 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against Christmas Cottage, Alby Hill, Alby, Norwich, NR11 7PJ, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
Christmas Cottage has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
- Mar 2005ExtensionFullGranted
Extension: Single storey · Front of property
ERECTION OF SINGLE-STOREY FRONT EXTENSION
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£556,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
Last sold (2022)
£530,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
Versus other Alby Hill homes
Four headline reads against 7 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
Christmas Cottage outperforms the street on epc rating by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,869
Street avg £3,595
Floor Area
137 m²
Street avg 124 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Norwich district page.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
0.2 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around NR11 7PJ from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.4dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 2 points of interest in total.
Beautiful places to visit nearby
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