Orchard Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in New Buckenham, Norwich, Norwich (NR16 2BE). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£267/sq ft) was about 47.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £425,000. 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 2026.
Orchard Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
T1- Western Red Cedar - (Thuja plicata) Height: 10m Crown Spread: 3m - Remove Tree.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£467,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£425,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Floor Area for Orchard Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,872
Street avg £3,042
Floor Area
148 m²
Street avg 80 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
2.5 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.0dB

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Full planning data for Orchard Cottage, Marsh Lane, New Buckenham, Norwich, NR16 2BE
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4 March 2022Most recent
£425,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in NR16 2BE: £212,500 (2025–2021).
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Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.8 t/year
Street avg 5.5 t/year
NR16 2BG
Old Buckenham High School. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.8dB