Garden Cottage, Old Lake Road, Ambleside, LA22 0DP

Garden Cottage is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Ambleside (LA22 0DP). It has a recorded floor area of 91 m² (around 980 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2013) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 91 m² it's 15.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (108 m² median across 4 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). 3 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 1 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £479,000 is 34.9% above the 2013 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 79.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sold in September 2013, so it's been off the market for around 13 years.