Florence Cottage is a detached house in King's Lynn (PE32 1JW). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft). The latest certificate (January 2019) returns a high B (score 91), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 93). Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 43% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£309/sq ft) was about 181.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 73% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £465,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Florence Cottage's carbon output is low for the local stock.
Florence Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
4applications of note in the surrounding area
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Price for Florence Cottage has grown more than fourfold since the 2017 starting point.
£474,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 43.0% per year over 5 years.
£465,000
Growth on file: 43.0% per year over 5 years.
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EPC Rating for Florence Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,321
Street avg £1,935
Floor Area
140 m²
Street avg 120 m²
CO₂ Emissions
1.5 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
2.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.5dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
8 December 2022Most recent
£465,000
+16.3%over 2 years4 December 2020
£400,000
+433.3%over 3 years2 November 2017
£75,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE32 1JW: £385,000 (2025–2022).
The Ridings Back Road Pentney King S Lynn
Sold Oct 2025
Meadow View Back Road Pentney King S Lynn
Sold Mar 2024
Jasmay Back Road Pentney King S Lynn
Sold Mar 2023
Fox Gloves Back Road Pentney King S Lynn
Sold Dec 2022
Orchard View Back Road Pentney King S Lynn
Sold Dec 2022

Street avg 5.2 t/year
Years Held
3 years
Street avg 13 years
PE32 1XQ
Narborough Church of England Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB