Beech Cottage, Lake Road, Ambleside, LA22 0AD

Beech Cottage is a semi-detached house in Ambleside (LA22 0AD). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

Held since November 1998 — that's 28 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. At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £541,000 sits 454.9% above the 1998 sale of £97,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£62/sq ft) was about 72.6% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2013.