Apple Tree Cottage, Hensol, Pontyclun, CF72 8JY

Apple Tree Cottage is a detached house in Hensol, Pontyclun, Pontyclun (CF72 8JY). It has a recorded floor area of 232 m² (around 2496 sq ft) and council tax band H. The latest certificate (October 2009) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 232 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 4 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 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £712,000 is 48.3% above the 2010 sale price.