Field Cottage, Back Street, Gayton, King's Lynn, PE32 1QR

Field Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in King's Lynn (PE32 1QR). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (117 m² across 41 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. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2017–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £516,000 is 29% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£234/sq ft) was about 36.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £400,000 in April 2020.