Curlew Cottage, Middle Market Street, Looe, PL13 1AY

Curlew Cottage is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Looe (PL13 1AY). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 702 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (October 2008) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 58). The latest certificate is from October 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

Untraded for 18 years, with the last transfer in June 2008. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 65 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £237,000 is 24.1% above the 2008 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£272/sq ft) was about 44.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.