Bottom Lock Cottage, Cottons Lane, Sandbach, CW11 4RB

Bottom Lock Cottage is a detached house in Sandbach (CW11 4RB). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2017 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and main heating went from Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 96), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on wood chips.

One historical planning record sits against the property in 2018. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £374,000 is 24.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£277/sq ft) was about 37.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £301,250 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.