Old Crown Cottage, Friarscroft Lane, Wymondham, NR18 0AT

Old Crown Cottage is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Wymondham (NR18 0AT). It has a recorded floor area of 29 m² (around 312 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Good to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 98), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 29 m² it sits well below the postcode median (60 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£490/sq ft) was about 154.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £153,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.