Appletree Cottage, Newby, Penrith, CA10 3EX

Appletree Cottage is a semi-detached house in Newby, Penrith, Penrith (CA10 3EX). It has a recorded floor area of 198 m² (around 2131 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2013) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Today's modelled estimate of £816,000 is 10.3% below the 2022 sale of £910,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£427/sq ft) was about 122% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 198 m² the property is well over the postcode median (133 m² across 36 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £910,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.