Blacksmiths Cottage, Yearsley, Brandsby, York, YO61 4SL

Blacksmiths Cottage is a detached house in Brandsby, York, York (YO61 4SL). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2013) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 117 m² it sits well below the postcode median (184 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £457,000 sits 1042.5% above the 1996 sale of £40,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 88.2% below the postcode norm.