Ottoway House, Baldwins Drove, Outwell, Wisbech, PE14 8SB

Ottoway House is a three-bedroom detached house in Outwell, Wisbech, Wisbech (PE14 8SB). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since September 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £402,000 sits 197.8% above the 1999 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£87/sq ft) was about 42.3% below the postcode norm.