Glebe Cottage, Church Lane, Barford, Warwick, CV35 8ES

Glebe Cottage is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Barford, Warwick, Warwick (CV35 8ES). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Poor; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (147 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £246,000 is 26.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 37.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £195,000 in April 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.