1 Railway Cottages, Station Road, Dove Holes, Buxton, SK17 8DH

1 Railway Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Dove Holes, Buxton, Buxton (SK17 8DH). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 691 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2011) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 44). The latest certificate is from June 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 64 m² it's 27.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (89 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 15.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £193,000 is 48.5% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£188/sq ft) was about 68.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.