Bunns Cottage, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
About Bunns Cottage
Bunns Cottage is a detached house in Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, Melton Constable (NR24 2NS). It has a recorded floor area of 193 m² (around 2077 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 193 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £934,000 is 10.5% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£407/sq ft) was about 48.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2020 for £845,000.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Bunns Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Multiple extension applications run across more than a decade of planning history at Bunns Cottage.
- Nov 2024ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Single storey rear extension
- Documents
- 13 docs on file
- Reference
- PF/24/2152
- Dec 2021ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Single storey rear extension
- Agent
- Robert Lord Associates
- Documents
- 16 docs on file
- Reference
- PF/21/2818
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on Bunns Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£934,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£845,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
24 September 2020Most recent
£845,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in NR24 2NS: £410,000 (2024–2019).
Nearby sales in NR24 2NS
Stonebeck, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
Sold Jul 2024
£630,000Chimney Cottage, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
Sold Oct 2020
£232,500Willow Cottage, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
Sold Sept 2019
£400,000Woodlands, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
Sold Apr 2019
£410,000Appletree Cottage, Swanton Road, Gunthorpe, Melton Constable, NR24 2NS
Sold Sept 2018
£340,000
Everything we know about Bunns Cottage, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Swanton Road homes
Bunns Cottage outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,378
Street avg £2,945
Floor Area
193 m²
Street avg 113 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 7.0 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.9dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB