Forge House, Church Lane, Wheatacre, Beccles, NR34 0AU

Forge House is a five-bedroom detached house in Wheatacre, Beccles, Beccles (NR34 0AU). It has a recorded floor area of 244 m² (around 2626 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 244 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1999–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £763,000 is 46.7% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£198/sq ft) was about 32.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (March 2016).