Beedle Cottage, Mount Pleasant Lane, Lymington, SO41 8LS

Beedle Cottage is a six-bedroom detached house in Lymington (SO41 8LS). It has a recorded floor area of 249 m² (around 2680 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since February 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good and lighting went from Average to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot.

At 249 m² the property is well over the postcode median (140 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£429/sq ft) was about 35% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,150,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.