1 Cavendish Cottages, Cavendish Bridge, Shardlow, Derby, DE72 2HL

1 Cavendish Cottages is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Shardlow, Derby, Derby (DE72 2HL). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 118), a 4-band jump.

5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 50 m² it's 26.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £182,000 is 21.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£279/sq ft) was about 43.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2021 for £150,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.