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Get startedIvy Cottage is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Bale, Fakenham, Fakenham (NR21 0QY). It has a recorded floor area of 29 m² (around 312 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2012) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 1.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£442/sq ft) was about 53.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 29 m² it sits well below the postcode median (160 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £138,000. 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 2011.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 08 Dec 2022
Erection of replacement shed/garden room
Ivy Cottage's sale-price growth has lagged the wider UK trajectory across its history on file.
£143,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 1.3% per year over 14 years.
£138,000
Growth on file: 1.3% per year over 14 years.
Ivy Cottage is notably below the street on floor area.
Price per m²
£4,759
Street avg £3,727
Floor Area
29 m²
Street avg 155 m²
Habitable Rooms
2 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.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.3dB

5 January 2021Most recent
£138,000
+20.0%over 14 years29 September 2006
£115,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in NR21 0QY: £650,000 (2023–2014).
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Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.5 t/year
Street avg 10.2 t/year
NR21 0DZ
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.1dB
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