The Cottage, East Street, Lilley, Luton, LU2 8LW

The Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Lilley, Luton, Luton (LU2 8LW). It has a recorded floor area of 195 m² (around 2099 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 195 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£317/sq ft) was about 23.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £665,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.