Barns Cottage, Black Dykes Lane, Upper Poppleton, York, YO26 6PT

Barns Cottage is a detached house in Upper Poppleton, York, York (YO26 6PT). It has a recorded floor area of 186 m² (around 2002 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78).

Sale prices here have outpaced York HPI: 8.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 27.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 186 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Sold June 2022 for £845,800. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.