2 Western Cottage, The Folly, Parkend, Lydney, GL15 4JQ

2 Western Cottage is a semi-detached house in Parkend, Lydney, Lydney (GL15 4JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2016) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since July 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2009. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2005, sale prices on this property compounded at 19.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £429,000 is 36.2% above the 2005 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£375/sq ft) was about 103.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 78 m² it's 18.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 8 EPCs).