Barnfield Cottage, Rosemary Lane, Bartle, Preston, PR4 0HB

Barnfield Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Bartle, Preston, Preston (PR4 0HB). It has a recorded floor area of 153 m² (around 1647 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 153 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£273/sq ft) was about 38% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £450,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.