Orchard Cottage, Holly Lane, Cransley, Kettering, NN14 1PU

Orchard Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Cransley, Kettering, Kettering (NN14 1PU). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1983-1990. The latest certificate (June 2012) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Last sale on file: £500,000 in December 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£430/sq ft) was about 110.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 108 m² it's 18.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (133 m² median across 6 EPCs).