Bracken Cottage, Bank Foot, Shincliffe, Durham, DH1 2PD

Bracken Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Shincliffe, Durham, Durham (DH1 2PD). It has a recorded floor area of 147 m² (around 1582 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since August 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 147 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 21 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 15 refused. Past consents include change of use to residential, an extension, subdivision and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 42.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £470,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.