The Thatched Cottage, Hillsend Lane, Attleborough, NR17 1BG

The Thatched Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Attleborough (NR17 1BG). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since August 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. Across 2002–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £490,000 sits 78.2% above the 2009 sale of £275,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£217/sq ft) was about 27% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 118 m² it's 19.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (147 m² median across 4 EPCs).