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Get startedLower Stainborough Fold Cottage is a semi-detached house in Hood Green, Barnsley, Barnsley (S75 3HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1041 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 49). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 97 m² it sits well below the postcode median (174 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs).
Lower Stainborough Fold Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 May 2020
Lower Stainborough Fold Cottage has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
Extension: Two storey · Side of property
Double storey side extension and entrance door canopy.
Lower Stainborough Fold Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£278,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
On epc rating, Lower Stainborough Fold Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
32 (F)
Street avg 51 (E)
Floor Area
97 m²
Street avg 172 m²
CO₂ Emissions
7.8 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.7 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.5dB

Extension: Two storey · Side of property
Double storey side extension and entrance door canopy (Listed Building Consent)
2 more applications for this property
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Median price across the last 5 sales in S75 3HQ: £575,000 (2025–2018).
1 Stainborough Fold Greno View Hood Green Barnsley
Sold Jul 2025
4 Stainborough Fold Greno View Hood Green Barnsley
Sold Apr 2024
Lower Stainborough Fold Farm Greno View Hood Green Barnsley
Sold Oct 2019
Fold Cottage Greno View Hood Green Barnsley
Sold Apr 2019
3 Stainborough Fold Greno View Hood Green Barnsley
Sold Feb 2018
Street avg 8.6 t/year
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Hood Green Road/Greno View — bus stop.
Closest school
1.2 km
Northern College for Residential Adult Education Limited. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.6dB