West Lea Cottage, Main Street, Cropwell Butler, Nottingham, NG12 3AB

West Lea Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Cropwell Butler, Nottingham, Nottingham (NG12 3AB). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2013) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£358/sq ft) was about 68.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 72 m² it sits well below the postcode median (187 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £277,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.