Blackbird Cottage, Mariners Hill, Blakeney, Holt, NR25 7NB

Blackbird Cottage is a semi-detached house in Blakeney, Holt, Holt (NR25 7NB). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1991-1995. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 59 m² it sits well below the postcode median (130 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £490,000 in May 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. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£772/sq ft) was about 228.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.