2 Station Cottages, Rice Lane, Flaxton, York, YO60 7PZ

2 Station Cottages is a semi-detached house in Flaxton, York, York (YO60 7PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 4 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 90 m² it's 16.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (108 m² median across 7 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £350,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2012. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£361/sq ft) was about 182.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.