Fagans Cottage, Holt Road, Cley, Holt, NR25 7TU

Fagans Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Cley, Holt, Holt (NR25 7TU). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since September 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (150 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Sold October 2021 for £552,000. 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 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £612,000 is 10.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£649/sq ft) was about 74.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2011.