17 Gale Park, Ambleside, LA22 0BN
About 17 Gale Park
17 Gale Park is a five-bedroom detached house in Ambleside (LA22 0BN). It has a recorded floor area of 171 m² (around 1841 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 171 m² the property is well over the postcode median (118 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£440/sq ft) was about 32.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £810,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2023.
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Already flagged here
Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms5
Energy performance
17 Gale Park's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Expired
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 29 Sept 2024
EPC Rating
Planning history
- May 2023RenovationFullIn report
Removal of Juliette balcony and installation of new balcony
- Documents
- 4 docs on file
- Reference
- 7/2023/5321
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 17 Gale Park was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£841,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.0% per year over 7 years.
£810,000
Growth on file: 6.0% per year over 7 years.
Sales timeline
29 September 2022Most recent
£810,000
+54.3%over 7 years28 April 2015
£525,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in LA22 0BN: £575,000 (2024–2019).
Everything we know about 17 Gale Park, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Gale Park homes
CO₂ Emissions for 17 Gale Park lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,737
Street avg £4,199
Floor Area
171 m²
Street avg 116 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 5.2 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.0 km
Ambleside Waterhead Ferry Landing — ferry terminal.
Closest school
0.6 km
Ambleside CofE Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.8dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.0dB