Bilbrough House Cottage, Main Street, Bilbrough, York, YO23 3PH

Bilbrough House Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Bilbrough, York, York (YO23 3PH). It has a recorded floor area of 169 m² (around 1819 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump.

Held since August 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced York HPI: 16.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £621,000 sits 100.3% above the 2002 sale of £310,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£170/sq ft) was about 32.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2009. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs).