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Get startedBrook Cottage is a semi-detached house in Colkirk, Fakenham, Fakenham (NR21 7ND). It has a recorded floor area of 160 m² (around 1722 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in February 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72). Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 19.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £414,000 is 26.4% below the 2022 sale of £562,500, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£327/sq ft) was about 56.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 160 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £562,500 in March 2022. 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 2017.
Brook Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
proposed room in a roof extension over existing garage and dining room
Latest sale on Brook Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£414,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 19.3% per year over 5 years.
£562,500
Growth on file: 19.3% per year over 5 years.
Brook Cottage outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,516
Street avg £3,001
Floor Area
160 m²
Street avg 99 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 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
0.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.9dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Replaced storage heaters with gas boiler
Fuel source changed
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Hot water efficiency improved
Windows upgraded, improving insulation
Wall insulation improved
More low energy lighting installed
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31 March 2022Most recent
£562,500
+125.9%over 4 years18 August 2017
£249,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in NR21 7ND: £187,000 (2024–2015).
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Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.3 t/year
Street avg 7.2 t/year
NR21 7LY
Colkirk Church of England Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.4dB
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