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Get startedDovecote is a detached house in Hessay, York, York (YO26 8JR). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced York HPI: 5.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £712,000 is 13.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£457/sq ft) was about 118% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £625,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Dovecote's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Sale price has grown by over 3x since 1999.
£712,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.5% per year over 23 years.
£625,000
Growth on file: 5.5% per year over 23 years.
Dovecote outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,921
Street avg £2,787
Floor Area
127 m²
Street avg 167 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 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
Hessay Methodist Chapel — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.7dB

30 November 2021Most recent
£625,000
+31.6%over 16 years28 September 2005
£475,000
+153.3%over 6 years20 May 1999
£187,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in YO26 8JR: £300,000 (2025–2022).
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.1 t/year
Street avg 7.9 t/year
YO26 8FL
Closest school
1.8 km
Rufforth Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.5dB
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