Stella Maris, Cotton Lane, Cotton, Stoke On Trent, ST10 3DN

Stella Maris is a five-bedroom detached house in Cotton, Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke On Trent (ST10 3DN). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (91 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £397,000 sits 98.5% above the 2006 sale of £200,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£129/sq ft) was about 28.3% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.