13 Kings Yard, Hawkshead, Ambleside, LA22 0QP

13 Kings Yard is a semi-detached house in Hawkshead, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 0QP). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: a garage conversion approved in 2025. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£538/sq ft) was about 65% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £452,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.