Monument Cottage, Collingwood Street, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8LG

Monument Cottage is a detached house in Coundon, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 8LG). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 36). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 46 m² it sits well below the postcode median (80 m² across 37 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £125,000 in May 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £152,000 is 21.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£252/sq ft) was about 371.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.