School Cottage East, Staythorpe Road, Averham, Newark, NG23 5RA

School Cottage East is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Averham, Newark, Newark (NG23 5RA). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since May 2014. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 89 m² it's 24.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (118 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2017–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £289,000 is 15.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£261/sq ft) was about 37.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £250,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.