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Get startedDovecote Farm is a detached house in Stickney, Boston, Boston (PE22 8HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1991-1995. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows a C (score 70). The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 99), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 4 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Dovecote Farm ranks among the most efficient homes in the postcode for energy use.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 04 Mar 2026
A change of use to residential application was refused at Dovecote Farm in 2023.
Determination of whether or not prior approval is required as to a) transport and highways impacts of the development, b) noise impacts of the development, c) contamination risks on the site, d) flooding risks on the site, e) whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to 2no. dwellings which is a use falling within use Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order, f) the design or external appearance of the building and g) the provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses.
Dovecote Farm has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£341,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
EPC Rating for Dovecote Farm runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
70 (C)
Street avg 56 (D)
Floor Area
127 m²
Street avg 80 m²
CO₂ Emissions
4.7 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.9 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.3dB

Determination of whether or not prior approval is required for the transport and impacts of the development, particularly to ensure safe site access; contamination risks in relation to the building; flooding risks in relation to the building; impacts of noise from commercial premises on the intended occupiers of the development; where- (i) the building is located in a conservation area and (ii) the development involves a change of use of the whole or part of the ground floor, the impact of that change of use on the character or sustainability of the conservation area; the provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the 3no. dwellinghouses; the impact on intended occupiers of the development of the introduction of residential use in an area the authority considers to be important for general or heavy industry, waste management, storage and distribution, or a mix of such uses; and where the development involves the loss of services provided by ? (i) a registered nursery, or (ii) a health centre maintained under section 2 or 3 of the National Health Service Act 2002(a), the impact on the location provision of the type of services lost for the change of use of a building and any land within its curtilage from a use falling within Class E (commercial, business and service) of Schedule 2 to the Use Classes Order to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses) of Schedule 1 to that Order.
4 more applications for this property
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Median price across the last 5 sales in PE22 8HQ: £200,000 (2023–2015).
Street avg 4.9 t/year
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Duke of Wellington Inn — bus stop.
Closest school
2.0 km
The New Leake Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Flood risk
High
From the Environment Agency.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB