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Get startedThe Old Cottage is a detached house in Barnard Castle (DL12 9TN). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2024) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 97), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 101 m² the property is well over the postcode median (67 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock.
The Old Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
The Old Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£321,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
EPC Rating for The Old Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
44 (E)
Street avg 37 (F)
Floor Area
101 m²
Street avg 101 m²
CO₂ Emissions
8.0 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.8dB

Street avg 8.1 t/year
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Bridge — bus stop.
Closest school
1.5 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard Castle. 4 schools nearby.
Flood risk
Medium
From the Environment Agency.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.4dB