Horseshoe Cottage, Hamerton Road, Winwick, Huntingdon, PE28 5PX

Horseshoe Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Winwick, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 5PX). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (March 2011); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (287 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2015–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,152/sq ft) was about 344.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £595,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.