Higher Ashford Cottage, Ashford, Barnstaple, EX31 4BY

Higher Ashford Cottage is a detached house in Ashford, Barnstaple, Barnstaple (EX31 4BY). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1485 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Main heating runs on oil.

Held since April 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £567,000 sits 467% above the 1997 sale of £100,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£67/sq ft) was about 72.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2008. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 138 m² it's 24.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (184 m² median across 4 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs).