Linden Cottage, Colthouse, Ambleside, LA22 0JU
About Linden Cottage
Linden Cottage is a detached house in Colthouse, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 0JU). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2017) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.
One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2023. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
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Risks
planning & flood
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Trends
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Energy performance
Linden Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
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Planning history
- Nov 2023RenovationHeritageIn report
Replacement of bedroom, kitchen and living room windows and frames. Replacement of living door to garden and shed door. Repair of external render/drip sills. Making good internal damp plaster. Slate over porch roof
- Council
- South Lakeland
New Windows- Documents
- 8 docs on file
- Reference
- 7/2023/5433
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Sales history & valuation
Linden Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£471,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
No sales recorded with HM Land Registry
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
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- Larger development activity nearby
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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.
Closest school
0.6 km
Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.6dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.9dB