Rose Cottage, Thurlby Road, Bilsby, Alford, LN13 9JJ

Rose Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Bilsby, Alford, Alford (LN13 9JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

It hasn't traded since November 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 127 m² it's 18.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (107 m² median across 21 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 1997–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 17.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £236,000 is 24.2% above the 2007 sale price.