The Cottage, Newton Hill, Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, PL8 1AB

The Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Plymouth (PL8 1AB). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since October 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 92 m² it's 18.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (113 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £517,000 is 29.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£404/sq ft) was about 17% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £400,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.