Weavers Cottage, Leicester Road, Billesdon, Leicester, LE7 9AQ

Weavers Cottage is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Billesdon, Leicester, Leicester (LE7 9AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 3-band jump.

Held since November 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 44 m² it sits well below the postcode median (120 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £178,000 sits 61.8% above the 2003 sale of £110,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£232/sq ft) was about 26.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.