Gale Lodge Stables, Old Lake Road, Ambleside, LA22 0AE

Gale Lodge Stables is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Ambleside (LA22 0AE). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 829 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 3 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 77 m² it sits well below the postcode median (127 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £386,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£466/sq ft) was about 81% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.