Rose Cottage, Court Colman Road, Pen Y Fai, Bridgend, CF31 4NE

Rose Cottage is a detached house in Pen-Y-Fai, Bridgend, Bridgend (CF31 4NE). It has a recorded floor area of 223 m² (around 2398 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 55). The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 223 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2001–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £490,000 is 40% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£146/sq ft) was about 63.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2002.