Brathay Fell, Flat 1, Clappersgate, Ambleside, LA22 9NE

Brathay Fell is a semi-detached house in Clappersgate, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 9NE). It has a recorded floor area of 91 m² (around 980 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2018) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (October 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 91 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 5 units on EPC record in Brathay Fell, where floor areas span 47–160 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to E, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (19 versus a best of 42).

At 91 m² it's 29.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (129 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£402/sq ft) was about 63.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £393,400. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.