North Cottage, Flat 4, 14 Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 2HH

North Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE2 2HH). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. At 98 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across North Cottage (98–116 m²). On EPC score it ranks first in the building (62 versus a worst of 56). The latest certificate (July 2017) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

Held since October 1999 — that's 27 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 98 m² the property is well over the postcode median (58 m² across 52 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £225,000 sits 109.3% above the 1999 sale of £107,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£102/sq ft) was about 48.1% below the postcode norm.