Orchard Cottage, Main Street, Badsworth, Pontefract, WF9 1AF

Orchard Cottage is a detached house in Badsworth, Pontefract, Pontefract (WF9 1AF). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 537 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2011) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 59). The latest certificate is from November 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (85 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £335,000 in March 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2023. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £381,000 is 13.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£624/sq ft) was about 157.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.