Corner Cottage, High Street, Brough, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4BT

Corner Cottage is an end-of-terrace house in Brough, Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Stephen (CA17 4BT). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (July 2024) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.

Held since October 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (146 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £133,000 sits 472% above the 1996 sale of £23,250. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£51/sq ft) was about 59.9% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.