Walnut Cottage, Clarkes Lane, St Martins, Oswestry, SY11 3ES

Walnut Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in St. Martins, Oswestry, Oswestry (SY11 3ES). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views.

At 88 m² it's 17% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 5 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£343/sq ft) was about 55.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Sold September 2022 for £325,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.