Birdbeck Cottage, Basin Road, Outwell, Wisbech, PE14 8TQ

Birdbeck Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Outwell, Wisbech, Wisbech (PE14 8TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2013) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory, outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot.

At 70 m² it sits well below the postcode median (109 m² across 10 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£358/sq ft) was about 128.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2021 for £270,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.