Cross Syke Cottage, Rothay Road, Ambleside, LA22 0EE

Cross Syke Cottage is a semi-detached house in Ambleside (LA22 0EE). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2025) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 3 certificates since April 2018. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (41 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch, new windows and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £499,000 is 18.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£345/sq ft) was about 20.3% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £420,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.