Highbury Cottage, Back Bank, Whaplode Drove, Spalding, PE12 0TT

Highbury Cottage is a detached house in Whaplode Drove, Spalding, Spalding (PE12 0TT). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2023) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (April 2013); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 123 m² it's 17.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (149 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: August 2023 at £350,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 2005–2023, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£264/sq ft) was about 52.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.