Pear Tree Cottage, Back Lane, Birdingbury, Rugby, CV23 8EN

Pear Tree Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Birdingbury, Rugby, Rugby (CV23 8EN). It has a recorded floor area of 179 m² (around 1927 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and outbuildings. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Held since June 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 179 m² the property is well over the postcode median (65 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £787,000 sits 169.1% above the 2000 sale of £292,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£152/sq ft) was about 56.7% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused.