English Cottage, Great Common Road, Ilketshall St Andrew, Beccles, NR34 8JB

English Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Ilketshall St. Andrew, Beccles, Beccles (NR34 8JB). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1423 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows a G (score 10), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 21). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 4 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. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2010. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £591,000 is 49.6% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£278/sq ft) was about 195.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in July 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years.