Lower Worthygate, The Barn, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
About Lower Worthygate
Lower Worthygate is a detached house in Horns Cross, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 5EA). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 107), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 84 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.
Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
Planning history
- May 2021AmendmentIn report
Certificate of Existing Lawful Use (Non compliance with holiday occupancy condition attached to The Stable under condition (2) of application 1/1483/1980)
Retrospective- Documents
- 7 docs on file
- Reference
- 1/0295/2021/CPE
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Sales history & valuation
Lower Worthygate has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£351,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Median price across the last 5 sales in EX39 5EA: £385,000 (2022–2011).
Nearby sales in EX39 5EA
Peppercombe Barn, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
Sold Nov 2022
£640,000Sea View Cottage, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
Sold Dec 2018
£385,000Barley Hayes, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
Sold Nov 2018
£590,000Higher Worthygate, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
Sold Apr 2011
£300,0002 Northway Cottages, Horns Cross, Bideford, EX39 5EA
Sold Apr 2009
£340,000
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.5 km
Hoops Inn — bus stop.
Closest school
1.8 km
Atlantic Academy. 2 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.6dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.5dB








