Peartree Cottage, The Green, Gressenhall, Dereham, NR20 4DT

Peartree Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Gressenhall, Dereham, Dereham (NR20 4DT). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£382/sq ft) was about 99% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 110 m² it's 25.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (147 m² median across 9 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £452,500 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.