The Old Church School, School Lane, Aby, Alford, LN13 0DL

The Old Church School is a detached house in Aby, Alford, Alford (LN13 0DL). It has a recorded floor area of 635 m² (around 6835 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in April 2015 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 63), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 635 m² the property is well over the postcode median (106 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 87% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £733,000 is 48.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£72/sq ft) was about 45.1% below the postcode norm. Sold March 2022 for £495,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.