Cottage Farm, Catthorpe Road, Shawell, Lutterworth, LE17 6AQ

Cottage Farm is a detached house in Shawell, Lutterworth, Lutterworth (LE17 6AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a G (score 12), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since September 2020. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

At 112 m² it's 23.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (147 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £617,000 is 23.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£415/sq ft) was about 72.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £500,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.