2 White Horse Cottages, The Street, Hempstead, Holt, NR25 6TL

2 White Horse Cottages is an end-of-terrace house in Hempstead, Holt, Holt (NR25 6TL). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 506 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a G (score 12), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 3 certificates since May 2011. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 6-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

It hasn't traded since May 1995, a hold of 31 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 47 m² it's 26% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £179,000 sits 450.8% above the 1995 sale of £32,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£64/sq ft) was about 73.9% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2023. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.