12 Cottage Lane, Collingham, Newark, NG23 7LJ

12 Cottage Lane is a three-bedroom detached house in Collingham, Newark, Newark (NG23 7LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 778 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. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (August 2009) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 49). The latest certificate is from August 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 72 m² it sits well below the postcode median (121 m² across 8 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. Across 1997–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £379,000 sits 51.6% above the 2009 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£321/sq ft) was about 65% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.