Elm Cottage, Over Road, Longstanton, Cambridge, CB24 3DW

Elm Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Longstanton, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB24 3DW). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an F (score 31), 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.

At 142 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, a porch and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£419/sq ft) was about 54.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £640,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.