Kelbarrow, Loft House, Grasmere, Ambleside, LA22 9PX

Kelbarrow is a detached house in Grasmere, Ambleside, Ambleside (LA22 9PX). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 45 m² it sits well below the postcode median (129 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £505,000 is 19.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£872/sq ft) was about 93.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £422,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.