Primrose Cottage, Main Street, Upton, Huntingdon, PE28 5YB

Primrose Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Upton, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 5YB). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 110), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (152 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Sold June 2021 for £284,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £313,000 is 10.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£334/sq ft) was about 69.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.