The Cottage, Church Lane, Cransley, Kettering, NN14 1PX

The Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Cransley, Kettering, Kettering (NN14 1PX). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1011 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. 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 home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (November 2011) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 42). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 94 m² it sits well below the postcode median (195 m² across 12 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). Across 2012–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£461/sq ft) was about 40.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £466,349 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.