3 Ayton Firs Cottages, Great Ayton, Middlesbrough, TS9 6JB

3 Ayton Firs Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Great Ayton, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough (TS9 6JB). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2016 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 96), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 101 m² it sits well below the postcode median (424 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2019–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£299/sq ft) was about 119.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £325,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.