Holmes Cottage, Woone Lane, Clitheroe, BB7 1BG

Holmes Cottage is a detached house in Clitheroe (BB7 1BG). It has a recorded floor area of 137 m² (around 1475 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in May 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 137 m² the property is well over the postcode median (87 m² across 41 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £375,000 in February 2021. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£254/sq ft) was about 103.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused.