Carpalla Cottage, Carpalla, Foxhole, St Austell, PL26 7TY

Carpalla Cottage is a detached house in Foxhole, St. Austell, St Austell (PL26 7TY). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since November 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 3.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £225,000 is 25% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£253/sq ft) was about 61.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 66 m² it's 28.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 37 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £180,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2012.