5 Station Cottages, Barton Hill, Whitwell, York, YO60 7JZ

5 Station Cottages is a mid-terrace house in Whitwell, York, York (YO60 7JZ). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 74 m² it sits well below the postcode median (143 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £281,000 is 12.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£314/sq ft) was about 89.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £250,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.