7 Craypool Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Scothern, Lincoln, Lincoln (LN2 2UU). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced Lincoln HPI: 6.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £502,000 is 11.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£240/sq ft) was about 49% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 174 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 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). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold March 2022 for £450,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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7 Craypool Lane's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 08 Sept 2024
PLANNING APPLICATION TO EXTEND DWELLING AND ERECT DETACHED GARAGE (RESUBMISSION OF M02/P/0731 - REFUSED 16/9/02)
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£502,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.9% per year over 5 years.
£450,000
Growth on file: 6.9% per year over 5 years.
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7 Craypool Lane is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£2,586
Street avg £2,177
Floor Area
174 m²
Street avg 153 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.8dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
8 March 2022Most recent
£450,000
+35.7%over 4 years8 August 2017
£331,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in LN2 2UU: £300,000 (2025–2020).

CO₂ Emissions
9.0 t/year
Street avg 5.9 t/year
LN2 2FD
Demand Responsive Area — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Ellison Boulters Church of England Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.1dB