Rose Lea Cottage, The Square, Hillam, Leeds, LS25 5HE

Rose Lea Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Hillam, Leeds, Leeds (LS25 5HE). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

It hasn't traded since June 2001, a hold of 25 years that's notably long for the area. At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 10 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. Across 1997–2001, sale prices on this property compounded at 13.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £442,000 sits 173.7% above the 2001 sale of £161,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£107/sq ft) was about 22.8% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.