16 Birkfield Road, Windermere, LA23 2AT

16 Birkfield Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Windermere (LA23 2AT). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2017. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 94 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £375,000 is 25% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 33.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.