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Get startedVine Cottage is a detached house in Blackbrook, Newcastle, Newcastle (ST5 5EH). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2023) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (173 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 1 refused.
Vine Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A recent planning application at Vine Cottage was refused — worth checking the council file.
Application for approval of a demolition works as required by condition 3 of planning permission 23/00857/FUL - Proposed Self-Building Replacement Dwelling of Vine Cottage
Vine Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£215,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Vine Cottage is notably below the street on floor area.
EPC Rating
1 (G)
Street avg 44 (E)
Floor Area
49 m²
Street avg 188 m²
CO₂ Emissions
10.0 t/year
Street avg 10.9 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
The Croft — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.1dB

Application for approval of a Construction Management Plan as required by condition 12 of planning permission 23/00857/FUL - Proposed Self-Building Replacement Dwelling of Vine Cottage
5 more applications for this property
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Median price across the last 5 sales in ST5 5EH: £370,000 (2023–2000).
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Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
41.6dB