Higher Cliff Cottage, Sandplace, Looe, PL13 1PJ

Higher Cliff Cottage is a detached house in Sandplace, Looe, Looe (PL13 1PJ). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2014) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 87 m² the property is well over the postcode median (61 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2011–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£561/sq ft) was about 186.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2021 for £525,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.