Old Oak Cottage, Swinderby Road, North Scarle, Lincoln, LN6 9EU

Old Oak Cottage is a detached house in North Scarle, Lincoln, Lincoln (LN6 9EU). It has a recorded floor area of 152 m² (around 1636 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2010) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 54). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 152 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £499,000 sits 126.8% above the 2000 sale of £220,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£134/sq ft) was about 17.6% below the postcode norm.