Clare Cottage, Hilltop, Cley, Holt, NR25 7SE

Clare Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Cley, Holt, Holt (NR25 7SE). It has a recorded floor area of 188 m² (around 2024 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2023) shows an E (score 39), 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.

It hasn't traded since May 1996, a hold of 30 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 188 m² the property is well over the postcode median (91 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £627,000 sits 637.6% above the 1996 sale of £85,000. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.