Ardwell House, Main Street, Great Ouseburn, York, YO26 9RQ

Ardwell House is a four-bedroom detached house in Great Ouseburn, York, York (YO26 9RQ). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (August 2015); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on house coal. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 83 m² it's 20.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 8 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £601,000 sits 52.2% above the 2016 sale of £395,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£442/sq ft) was about 63.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, new windows and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in April 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years.