Fern Cottage, Stafford Avenue, Halifax, HX3 0BH

Fern Cottage is a six-bedroom detached house in Halifax (HX3 0BH). It has a recorded floor area of 413 m² (around 4445 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Period features are noted in the property record.

It hasn't traded since December 2003, a hold of 22 years that's notably long for the area. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for solar panel installation is awaiting a decision. At 413 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £765,000 sits 131.8% above the 2003 sale of £330,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£74/sq ft) was about 53.7% below the postcode norm.