Hilltop Cottage, Pinfold Lane, Beesby, Alford, LN13 0JG

Hilltop Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Beesby, Alford, Alford (LN13 0JG). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2025) returns a high B (score 90), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in November 2011 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 106). Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in June 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £391,000 sits 604.5% above the 1997 sale of £55,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£33/sq ft) was about 77.8% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.