Rosemary Cottage, Fore Street, Exbourne, Okehampton, EX20 3RU

Rosemary Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Exbourne, Okehampton, Okehampton (EX20 3RU). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 763 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (March 2012) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 62). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 71 m² it sits well below the postcode median (106 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£544/sq ft) was about 164.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £415,000 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.