2 Post Office Cottages, East Street, Lilley, Luton, LU2 8LW

2 Post Office Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Lilley, Luton, Luton (LU2 8LW). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include notable views. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (April 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On the market in September 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1996–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £287,000 is 40% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£476/sq ft) was about 81.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.