Kirby Cottage is a detached house in Wirral (CH48 2HU). It has a recorded floor area of 323 m² (around 3477 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80).
Sale prices here have outpaced Wirral HPI: 8.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£374/sq ft) was about 41.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 323 m² the property is well over the postcode median (228 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £1,300,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Kirby Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Kirby Cottage has no planning applications on record.
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Latest sale on Kirby Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£1,373,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 8.2% per year over 27 years.
£1,300,000
Growth on file: 8.2% per year over 27 years.
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Price per m² for Kirby Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,025
Street avg £3,009
Floor Area
323 m²
Street avg 278 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.6dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
29 June 2022Most recent
£1,300,000
+107.5%over 17 years11 February 2005
£626,500
+296.5%over 9 years24 November 1995
£158,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CH48 2HU: £570,000 (2018–1999).

Street avg 8 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
13.0 t/year
Street avg 13.6 t/year
Mount Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School. 8 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.6dB