Rose Cottage, School Lane, Bythorn, Huntingdon, PE28 0QS

Rose Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Bythorn, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 0QS). It has a recorded floor area of 240 m² (around 2583 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 240 m² the property is well over the postcode median (162 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 12 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£271/sq ft) was about 62.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £699,950. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.