3 New Cottages, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
About 3 New Cottages
3 New Cottages is a semi-detached house in Buckworth, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 5AN). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 107), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 71 m² it's 23.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (93 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £328,000 is 20.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£356/sq ft) was about 58.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £272,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Energy performance
3 New Cottages sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
3 New Cottages has no planning applications on record.
A planning report still maps activity across the surrounding area and reads this property's extension & conversion potential.
Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£328,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£272,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
5 January 2021Most recent
£272,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE28 5AN: £360,000 (2023–2011).
Nearby sales in PE28 5AN
1 New Cottages, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
Sold Nov 2023
£425,000Peacehaven, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
Sold Aug 2020
£521,5004 New Cottages, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
Sold May 2012
£198,500Old School House, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
Sold Sept 2011
£360,000The Rowans, Barham Road, Buckworth, Huntingdon, PE28 5AN
Sold Jul 2011
£562,000
Versus other Barham Road homes
EPC Rating for 3 New Cottages lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,831
Street avg £3,343
Floor Area
71 m²
Street avg 133 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.3 t/year
Street avg 6.6 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Go deeper on the local area
A Local Area report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.3dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.4dB







