Wren Cottage, Main Street, Welney, Wisbech, PE14 9RB

Wren Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Welney, Wisbech, Wisbech (PE14 9RB). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows a C (score 77), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Good to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 89). Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 90 m² it sits well below the postcode median (147 m² across 21 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 81% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £535,000 is 16.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£475/sq ft) was about 436.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold April 2021 for £460,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.