Idle Acre, Nags Head Lane, Hargrave, Wellingborough, NN9 6BJ

Idle Acre is a detached house in Hargrave, Wellingborough, Wellingborough (NN9 6BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 173 m² (around 1862 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2017) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 173 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an annexe and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£435/sq ft) was about 222.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2021 for £810,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.