Stepping Stones, 3 Riverside Terrace, Under Loughrigg, Ambleside, LA22 9LN

Stepping Stones is an end-of-terrace house in Under Loughrigg, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 9LN). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2012 onwards. The latest certificate (December 2024) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (February 2019); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Today's modelled estimate of £378,000 is 41.8% below the 2021 sale of £650,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£694/sq ft) was about 88.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. At 87 m² it's 15.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 8 EPCs). Last sale on file: £650,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.