Sunshine Cottage, Back Street, Gayton, King's Lynn, PE32 1QR
About Sunshine Cottage
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
Sunshine Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in King's Lynn (PE32 1QR). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 17.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£368/sq ft) was about 115% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (119 m² across 40 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold July 2022 for £229,950. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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What this property has
Pulled from EPC certificates, claim submissions and our property model. Empty categories are hidden — we only show what's known.
Inside
- Bedrooms2
- Bathrooms1
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Sunshine Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E39
F
G
Main Heating
Electric
Main Fuel
Electric
Hot Water
Average
Windows
Good
CO2 Emissions
7.5 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against Sunshine Cottage, Back Street, Gayton, King's Lynn, PE32 1QR, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
Sunshine Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
4applications of note in the surrounding area
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We flagged 2 things worth checking at Sunshine Cottage
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- Larger development activity nearby
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
Sunshine Cottage changed hands twice within eighteen months — unusual for the area.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£244,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 17.2% per year over 1 year.
Last sold (2022)
£229,950
Growth on file: 17.2% per year over 1 year.
Sales timeline
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Everything we know about Sunshine Cottage, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
- Recent ownership pattern worth a look
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Versus other Back Street homes
Four headline reads against 40 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
On floor area, Sunshine Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,965
Street avg £2,446
Floor Area
58 m²
Street avg 133 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the King's Lynn district page.
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
0.4 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around PE32 1QR from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.4dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 1 points of interest in total.
Common questions
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