Meadow Cottage, The Street, Lidgate, Newmarket, CB8 9PP

Meadow Cottage is a detached house in Lidgate, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 9PP). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 43). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since March 2011, a hold of 15 years that's notably long for the area. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £707,000 is 48.8% above the 2011 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£501/sq ft) was about 91.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 13 planning records sit against the property, 9 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 88 m² it sits well below the postcode median (173 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs).