Honeysuckle Cottage, Thursford Road, Great Snoring, Fakenham, NR21 0HW

Honeysuckle Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Great Snoring, Fakenham, Fakenham (NR21 0HW). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since August 2008, a hold of 18 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 15.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £431,000 sits 53.9% above the 2008 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£200/sq ft) was about 26.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 130 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.