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Get startedSmugglers Cottage is a detached house in Gooseham, Bude, Bude (EX23 9PG). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 114), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£358/sq ft) was about 44.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer was April 2025 at £270,000 — fresh data. At 70 m² it sits well below the postcode median (156 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Smugglers Cottage has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1996.
£284,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.4% per year over 29 years.
£270,000
Growth on file: 5.4% per year over 29 years.
Years Held for Smugglers Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,857
Street avg £3,701
Floor Area
70 m²
Street avg 154 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Marsland Cottage — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.0dB

30 April 2025Most recent
£270,000
+350.4%over 28 years4 October 1996
£59,950
Median price across the last 5 sales in EX23 9PG: £600,000 (2023–2022).
CO₂ Emissions
4.2 t/year
Street avg 5.3 t/year
EX23 9EE
Closest school
1.3 km
St Mark's CofE Academy. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB
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