The Willows, Main Road, Pillowell, Lydney, GL15 4QX

The Willows is a four-bedroom detached house in Pillowell, Lydney, Lydney (GL15 4QX). It has a recorded floor area of 147 m² (around 1582 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in May 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

At 147 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, tree works and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £491,000 is 21.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£256/sq ft) was about 79.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2021 for £405,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.