Ashtons Cottage, Arley, Northwich, CW9 6LZ

Ashtons Cottage is a detached house in Arley, Northwich, Northwich (CW9 6LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 187 m² (around 2013 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,338,000 is 10.5% below the 2021 sale of £1,495,000, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£743/sq ft) was about 165.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 187 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 8 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £1,495,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.