Ferns Lodge, Cottagers Lane, Hordle, Lymington, SO41 0FE

Ferns Lodge is a three-bedroom detached house in Hordle, Lymington, Lymington (SO41 0FE). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 953 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2011) shows a G (score 7), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from February 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot.

Held since June 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 89 m² it's 28.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (124 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £657,000 sits 198.6% above the 1999 sale of £220,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£231/sq ft) was about 28.4% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2019.