Lantern House Barn, The Green, Rampton, Cambridge, CB24 8QB

Lantern House Barn is a detached house in Rampton, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB24 8QB). It has a recorded floor area of 232 m² (around 2497 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2024); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since December 2000 — that's 25 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 232 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 13 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. Across 1999–2000, sale prices on this property compounded at 54.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £583,000 sits 316.4% above the 2000 sale of £140,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£56/sq ft) was about 73.3% below the postcode norm.