Hawkshead Field Cottage, Hawkshead, Ambleside, LA22 0QE
About Hawkshead Field Cottage
Hawkshead Field Cottage is a semi-detached house in Hawkshead, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 0QE). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2024) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 105), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.
2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
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Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
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Property Improvements
Changes detected from historical EPC data
Wall insulation improved
Solar water heating installed
Planning history
Planning records include a solar-panel installation at Hawkshead Field Cottage.
- Mar 2012Solar PanelsFullIn report
Full internal and external refurbishment of cottage to include new electrics and plumbing, works to relocate bathroom, new kitchen and bathroom installations, internal and external redecoration and new below ground calor gas tank and ground mounted solar thermal panels within garden area and repointing of the garage
- Council
- South Lakeland
- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- 7/2012/5014
- Mar 2012Solar PanelsHeritageIn report
Full internal and external refurbishment of cottage to include new electrics and plumbing, works to relocate bathroom, new kitchen and bathroom installations, internal and external redecoration and new below ground calor gas tank and ground mounted solar thermal panels within garden area and repointing of the garage
- Council
- South Lakeland
- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- 7/2012/5015
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Sales history & valuation
Hawkshead Field Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£372,000
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.
Median price across the last 4 sales in LA22 0QE: £352,500 (2016–1999).
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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
1.1 km
Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.5dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.9dB