Wansfell, St Marys Lane, Ambleside, LA22 9DG

Wansfell is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Ambleside (LA22 9DG). It has a recorded floor area of 41 m² (around 441 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2012 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £288,000 is 17.7% below the 2021 sale of £350,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£793/sq ft) was about 143.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 41 m² it's 26.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (56 m² median across 15 EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £350,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.