The Kennels Cottage, Copgrove, Harrogate, HG3 3SZ

The Kennels Cottage is a semi-detached house in Copgrove, Harrogate, Harrogate (HG3 3SZ). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows an E (score 46), 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. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £428,000 sits 355.3% above the 1997 sale of £94,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£72/sq ft) was about 60.9% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2009. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 121 m² it's 21% larger than the typical home in the postcode (100 m² median across 11 EPCs).