1 Turpins Cottages, Main Road, Higham, Alfreton, DE55 6EH

1 Turpins Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Higham, Alfreton, Alfreton (DE55 6EH). It has a recorded floor area of 152 m² (around 1637 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (June 2010) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 56), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 152 m² it's 20.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (127 m² median across 46 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sold in January 2014, so it's been off the market for around 12 years. Across 2002–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £419,000 is 39.7% above the 2014 sale price.