Fair View Cottage, Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
About Fair View Cottage
Fair View Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in South Kilworth, Lutterworth, Lutterworth (LE17 6DY). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1345 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Held since August 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 125 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £416,000 sits 296.2% above the 1997 sale of £105,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£78/sq ft) was about 62.6% below the postcode norm.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms2
Energy performance
Fair View Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Fair View Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
2applications of note in the surrounding area
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Sales history & valuation
Fair View Cottage's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (1997).
£416,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£105,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
7 August 1997Most recent
£105,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in LE17 6DY: £280,000 (2025–2023).
Nearby sales in LE17 6DY
7 Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
Sold Aug 2025
£220,000Witsend, Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
Sold Dec 2024
£280,000The Bungalow, Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
Sold Nov 2024
£900,0004 Church Mews, Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
Sold Oct 2023
£180,000The Cottage, Welford Road, South Kilworth, Lutterworth, LE17 6DY
Sold Aug 2023
£470,000
Versus other Welford Road homes
Fair View Cottage is notably below the street on price per m².
Price per m²
£840
Street avg £2,981
Floor Area
125 m²
Street avg 106 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.6 t/year
Street avg 5.8 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
The White Hart — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
South Kilworth Church of England Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.6dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.7dB







