5 East Bight is a three-bedroom detached house in Lincoln (LN2 1QH). It has a recorded floor area of 165 m² (around 1776 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a conservatory. The latest certificate (February 2019) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump.
14 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 165 m² it's 19.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (138 m² median across 8 EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £694,000 is 15.7% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£338/sq ft) was about 49.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £600,000 in November 2020.
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5 East Bight's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
5 East Bight has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
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£694,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£600,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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EPC Rating for 5 East Bight lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,636
Street avg £2,997
Floor Area
165 m²
Street avg 142 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Bailgate Methodist Church — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
50.7dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
T1 Horse Chestnut - re-pollard to previous reduction points.
Submission of details to approve condition 3 (Level 3 analytical record for walls) of planning permission 2022/0695/LBC
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5 November 2020Most recent
£600,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in LN2 1QH: £312,500 (2022–2013).

CO₂ Emissions
13.0 t/year
Street avg 6.5 t/year
LN2 1RN
Closest school
0.4 km
Westgate Academy. 17 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.5dB