Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
Shipwrights is a three-bedroom detached house in King's Lynn (PE31 8DH). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1996-2002. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (129 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). It changed hands recently, sold October 2025 for £820,000. Across 1998–2025, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£443/sq ft) was about 76.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.
Shipwrights's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Certificate validity
Valid until 30 March 2035
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Shipwrights has no planning applications on record.
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Shipwrights has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1998.
£889,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.1% per year over 27 years.
£820,000
Growth on file: 5.1% per year over 27 years.
31 October 2025Most recent
£820,000
+281.4%over 27 years23 September 1998
£215,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE31 8DH: £620,000 (2023–2019).
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Sold Jun 2023
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Sold Jun 2021
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Sold Sept 2020
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Sold Mar 2020
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Sold Mar 2019
On years held, Shipwrights runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,767
Street avg £3,634
Floor Area
172 m²
Street avg 136 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 5.8 t/year
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Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
50/mo
Falling year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
1.3 km
Burnham Market Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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