Elwood Cottage, Trentside, Amcotts, Scunthorpe, DN17 4AX

Elwood Cottage is a five-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Amcotts, Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe (DN17 4AX). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

Today's modelled estimate of £143,000 sits 113.4% above the 2022 sale of £67,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£71/sq ft) was about 23% below the postcode norm. At 88 m² it sits well below the postcode median (154 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold August 2022 for £67,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.