Laundry Cottage, Laundry Road, Apethorpe, Peterborough, PE8 5DQ

Laundry Cottage is a detached house in Apethorpe, Peterborough, Peterborough (PE8 5DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 236 m² (around 2540 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (July 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 236 m² the property is well over the postcode median (114 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Sold January 2022 for £725,000. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £827,000 is 14.1% above the 2022 sale price.