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Get startedAlverton Cottage is a detached house in Penzance (TR18 4TG). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £406,000 is 28.9% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£308/sq ft) was about 129.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. 9 years since the last transfer (July 2017). At 95 m² it's 24% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (125 m² median across 3 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Alverton Cottage has multiple listed-building consents on file — alterations need formal heritage approval.
Price for Alverton Cottage has grown more than fourfold since the 1996 starting point.
£406,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.5% per year over 21 years.
£315,000
Growth on file: 7.5% per year over 21 years.
On floor area, Alverton Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,316
Street avg £2,724
Floor Area
95 m²
Street avg 234 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.5dB

Erection of a replacement conservatory extension (amended design) and a greenhouse
Listed Building Consent for the erection of a replacement conservatory extension (amended design) and a greenhouse
8 more applications for this property
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28 July 2017Most recent
£315,000
+175.1%over 17 years8 October 1999
£114,500
+63.6%over 2 years25 October 1996
£70,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in TR18 4TG: £315,000 (2024–2006).
Street avg 8 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.9 t/year
Street avg 11.2 t/year
TR18 4HB
Alexandra Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Alverton Primary School. 11 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.0dB
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