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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Sunshine Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Sunshine Cottage has no planning applications on record.
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Sunshine Cottage changed hands twice within eighteen months — unusual for the area.
£244,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 17.2% per year over 1 year.
£229,950
Growth on file: 17.2% per year over 1 year.
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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
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

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.4dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
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22 July 2022Most recent
£229,950
+24.3%over 1 year8 March 2021
£185,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE32 1QR: £377,500 (2025–2023).
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Sold Aug 2024
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Sold Aug 2024
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Sold Oct 2023
Mallows Back Street Gayton King S Lynn
Sold Jun 2023

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.5 t/year
Street avg 6.7 t/year
PE32 1DL
Gayton Church of England Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.5dB