Laurel House, Main Street, Huby, York, YO61 1HQ

Laurel House is a five-bedroom detached house in Huby, York, York (YO61 1HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 289 m² (around 3111 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 289 m² the property is well over the postcode median (145 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£288/sq ft) was about 31.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £895,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.