Colebatch Hill Cottage, Colebatch, Bishops Castle, SY9 5LW

Colebatch Hill Cottage is a detached house in Colebatch, Bishops Castle, Bishops Castle (SY9 5LW). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1996 — that's 29 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. Today's modelled estimate of £334,000 sits 398.5% above the 1996 sale of £67,000. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.