The Gables, Old College Lane, Windermere, LA23 1BY

The Gables is a five-bedroom detached house in Windermere (LA23 1BY). It has a recorded floor area of 347 m² (around 3734 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (May 2011) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The latest certificate is from May 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 347 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,761,000 sits 113.5% above the 2011 sale of £825,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£221/sq ft) was about 43.9% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in November 2011 and unlisted since — roughly 15 years.