Brickyard Cottage, Brynteg Lane, Brynteg, Pontyclun, CF72 8LS

Brickyard Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brynteg, Pontyclun, Pontyclun (CF72 8LS). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1991 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views, a conservatory, a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Held since July 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 12.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £379,000 sits 55.3% above the 2005 sale of £244,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£123/sq ft) was about 26.7% below the postcode norm. At 185 m² the property is well over the postcode median (134 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs).