Lesley Cottage, Burton Street, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1JJ

Lesley Cottage is a semi-detached house in Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Newton (DT10 1JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2013) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 65), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 68 m² it sits well below the postcode median (106 m² across 24 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. Today's modelled estimate of £257,000 sits 69.1% above the 2014 sale of £152,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£208/sq ft) was about 16.9% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in December 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years.