1 The Cottages, Lower End, Bubbenhall, Coventry, CV8 3BW

1 The Cottages is an end-of-terrace house in Bubbenhall, Coventry, Coventry (CV8 3BW). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1998 — that's 28 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 78 m² it sits well below the postcode median (123 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £251,000 sits 382.7% above the 1998 sale of £52,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£62/sq ft) was about 73.8% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2025. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.