Blacksmiths Cottage, Church Lane, South Stainley, Harrogate, HG3 3NE

Blacksmiths Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in South Stainley, Harrogate, Harrogate (HG3 3NE). It has a recorded floor area of 151 m² (around 1625 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 151 m² it sits well below the postcode median (305 m² across 17 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£508/sq ft) was about 90.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2022 for £825,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.