Orchard Cottage, Common Road, Aldeby, Beccles, NR34 0BL

Orchard Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Aldeby, Beccles, Beccles (NR34 0BL). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2016 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £477,000 is 22.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£412/sq ft) was about 92.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 88 m² it's 24.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (117 m² median across 17 EPCs). Sold March 2021 for £390,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.