Old Reading Room, Rectory Lane, Bunwell, Norwich, NR16 1QU

Old Reading Room is a four-bedroom detached house in Bunwell, Norwich, Norwich (NR16 1QU). It has a recorded floor area of 195 m² (around 2100 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2011) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 25). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 195 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £533,000 sits 126.8% above the 2003 sale of £235,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£112/sq ft) was about 55.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2013. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.