Parklands Cottage, Parkend Road, Bream, Lydney, GL15 6JY

Parklands Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Bream, Lydney, Lydney (GL15 6JY). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1429 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2008) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 57). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 133 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 25 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. Across 1996–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at -1.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £297,000 sits 560% above the 2002 sale of £45,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£31/sq ft) was about 79.3% below the postcode norm.