Chapel Cottage, High Street, Colne, Huntingdon, PE28 3ND

Chapel Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Colne, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 3ND). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in January 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 60 m² it sits well below the postcode median (132 m² across 36 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold April 2022 for £315,000. Across the public record there are 7 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 148.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.