9 Long Row Cottage, The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
About 9 Long Row Cottage
9 Long Row Cottage is a semi-detached house in Newton Harcourt, Leicester, Leicester (LE8 9FQ). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a G (score 5), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (100 m² across 13 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. 6 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £221,000 is 14.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£426/sq ft) was about 90.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2022 at £192,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Energy performance
9 Long Row Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
Multiple extension applications run across more than a decade of planning history at 9 Long Row Cottage.
6 applications on record at 9 Long Row Cottage, The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
- Dec 2004OutbuildingFullOutcome in report
Erection of a garage
- Reference
- 04/01643/FUL
- More recent applications — locked
- ConditionsJun 2024Decision
- ExtensionNov 2021Decision
+ 3 more applications in the report
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£221,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£192,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
16 February 2022Most recent
£192,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in LE8 9FQ: £432,500 (2025–2022).
Nearby sales in LE8 9FQ
Brooklands, The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
Sold Mar 2025
£432,5002 The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
Sold Mar 2024
£450,000Moot House, The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
Sold Jul 2023
£350,0004 The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
Sold Oct 2022
£605,0006 Long Row Cottage, The Square, Newton Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 9FQ
Sold Feb 2022
£120,000
Versus other The Square homes
9 Long Row Cottage outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,583
Street avg £2,846
Floor Area
42 m²
Street avg 103 m²
Habitable Rooms
2 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.5 t/year
Street avg 5.0 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
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.0 km
Wistow Rural Centre — bus stop.
Closest school
2.2 km
Kilby St Mary's Church of England Primary School. 7 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.1dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.2dB







