Ye Olde Bark House, Quay Road, Polperro, Looe, PL13 2QZ

Ye Olde Bark House is a semi-detached house in Polperro, Looe, Looe (PL13 2QZ). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a G (score 18), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

One planning record on file: change of use to residential approved in 2004. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£735/sq ft) was about 67.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £435,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.