Chalk Barn Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in King's Lynn (PE32 1QP). It has a recorded floor area of 143 m² (around 1539 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a corner plot.
At 143 m² it's 20.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (118 m² median across 39 EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £471,000 is 20.8% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£253/sq ft) was about 51% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Last sale on file: £390,000 in February 2020.
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Chalk Barn Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Variation of condition 2 of planning permission 19/02114/F: Construction of garage
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£471,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£390,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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CO₂ Emissions for Chalk Barn Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,727
Street avg £2,193
Floor Area
143 m²
Street avg 131 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
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
0.7 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.2dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Occupation of annexe without complying with condition 1 of planning permission 2/82/2403/F to allow annexe to be used as separate unit of accommodation
21 February 2020Most recent
£390,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE32 1QP: £317,500 (2024–2021).

CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 6.2 t/year
PE32 1YD
Gayton Church of England Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.8dB