Applegarth Cottage, Flat 3, Church Street, Woodlesford, Leeds, LS26 8RE

Applegarth Cottage is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Woodlesford, Leeds, Leeds (LS26 8RE). It has a recorded floor area of 39 m² (around 420 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 39 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Applegarth Cottage (39–163 m²). On EPC score it ranks first in the building (66 versus a worst of 61). The latest certificate (August 2020) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76).

At 39 m² it sits well below the postcode median (71 m² across 25 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £104,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £122,000 is 17.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£248/sq ft) was about 78.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.