3 Flying Horse Shoe Cottages, Clapham, Lancaster, LA2 8ES

3 Flying Horse Shoe Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Clapham, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 8ES). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in November 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Average, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £189,000 is 13.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£310/sq ft) was about 84.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £167,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.