Briar Cottage, St Michaels Lane, Wainfleet St Mary, Skegness, PE24 4HB

Briar Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Wainfleet St. Mary, Skegness, Skegness (PE24 4HB). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include notable views. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since March 1998 — that's 28 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. Today's modelled estimate of £232,000 sits 314.3% above the 1998 sale of £56,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£52/sq ft) was about 50.1% below the postcode norm. At 101 m² it's 22.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 20 EPCs).