16 Cottam Crescent, Marple Bridge, Stockport, SK6 5BJ

16 Cottam Crescent is a three-bedroom detached house in Marple Bridge, Stockport, Stockport (SK6 5BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (April 2019); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 142 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £471,000 is 41% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£219/sq ft) was about 19.2% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £334,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.