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Vicarage Lane, Acton, Sudbury

East of England

£200,000

Listed on 13/10/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
2
Type
Terraced

Features

  • Garage
  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This two-bedroom end-terraced home is offered with no onward chain and is set in a village location. The accommodation includes an entrance hall, a front-facing lounge and a kitchen/diner with access to the rear garden. Upstairs are two bedrooms, a landing with loft access and an airing cupboard, and a bathroom with a bath, wash basin and WC. The rear garden includes lawn and patio areas, with a drained pond, and provides access towards the parking and garage. The garage has an up-and-over door and a rear window, but has not been inspected. The property is described as requiring updating, offering scope for a buyer to assess and plan improvements to suit their needs. Acton has a local shop, post office, primary school, pub and church. Long Melford is around two miles away and Sudbury around three miles away, where there are further amenities and a railway station with services to Colchester and London Liverpool Street.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

50out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity

Confidence: LOW

This is a light modernisation project with a useful canvas: the lounge and kitchen finishes are dated, while the photographed living spaces and bedrooms appear generally intact. The standout value-add is getting the overgrown front and generous rear garden back into use; the listing also highlights a garage and parking, in a village setting close to Long Melford and Sudbury.

The score is a cautious D rather than a judgement that the asking price is dear: floor area is missing, so value against local £/sqf cannot yet be assessed. The indicated £7,000–£16,000 renovation range gives a sense of the updating involved, but the value case needs the floor area to be established.

Key opportunities

  • Refresh the dated lounge decoration and kitchen finishes without starting from a visibly damaged interior.
  • Clear and rework the overgrown front and rear gardens, bringing the partly obscured paths and patio back into use.
  • Make use of the generous rear garden alongside the listed garage and parking.

Key risks

None recorded.

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£756
Based on a loan of £150,000 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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