Whale View Cottage, Helton, Penrith, CA10 2QA

Whale View Cottage is a detached house in Helton, Penrith, Penrith (CA10 2QA). It has a recorded floor area of 176 m² (around 1890 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2012) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 176 m² it's 15.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (152 m² median across 10 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 70% of similar EPCs). Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£370/sq ft) was about 84% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £700,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.