Brantwood, Compston Road, Ambleside, LA22 9DJ

Brantwood is a five-bedroom mid-terrace house in Ambleside (LA22 9DJ). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a G (score 14), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a basement. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 17.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2022 for £445,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.