5 Cornfields, Little Stretton, Leicester, LE2 2EY

5 Cornfields is a five-bedroom detached house in Little Stretton, Leicester, Leicester (LE2 2EY). It has a recorded floor area of 257 m² (around 2766 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since October 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 257 m² it's 18.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (218 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £689,000 sits 253.3% above the 1997 sale of £195,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 37.2% below the postcode norm.