The Willows, Willoughby Road, Cumberworth, Alford, LN13 9LF

The Willows is a four-bedroom detached house in Cumberworth, Alford, Alford (LN13 9LF). It has a recorded floor area of 224 m² (around 2411 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in August 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 224 m² the property is well over the postcode median (99 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £494,000 is 20.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£170/sq ft) was about 20.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £410,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.