Assuming the property is Crow Hill:
I have lived in a stone house with an EPC exactly the same and I can tell you the EPC will be a crock of shit. Our energy use was four times the EPC (but our heating system was questionable). Let's be kind and assume it's x3 the EPC:
https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/energy-certificate/5300-8059-0222-5222-3973
An average household would need to spend £3,385 per year on heating, hot water and lighting in this property. These costs usually make up the majority of your energy bills.
That's £10,155 to heat the main house.
The Council Tax on the house is £4356.
Then it has an Annexe which is also energy poor:
https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk/energy-certificate/2753-3005-7209-5737-0204
An average household would need to spend £1,242 per year on heating, hot water and lighting in this property. These costs usually make up the majority of your energy bills.
Again, let's triple that.
That's £3,726 to heat the Annexe.
Additionally, the Annexe has it's own council tax of £1452 a year.
I tried to insure a stone built house in May. It was about 150 years younger than this one. It was 2000 sq ft and they wanted at least £1340 a year.
Let's assume insurance is x4 that because it's massive and far older.
Insurance: £5,360 per year.
So, before you've used any extra energy other than heat and water you're paying:
£10,155
£4,356
£3,726
£1,452
£5,360
£25,049
just to run the house.
It runs on LPG (liquid petrol gas) which I assume is the same pain in the arse stuff friends of ours struggled to get hold of last winter. It comes in big, heavy metal bottles.
You can't actually tell when you're going to run out because none of the reading implements for them work. You just have to keep one bottle next to the other and switch them over when one runs out. And hope you're strong enough to do so, because they're about five and a half feet tall.
Not only do you have to phone around to try to track down supplies sometimes, but the market is completely unregulated with no caps whatsoever.
We were on oil last summer when watching electricity prices go up. At the time, Kerosene (in actual oil form, but a similar fluctuating market) was quadruple the price of the highest rate anyone was paying for electricity and about ten times the price of gas.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/propane
^ There's your propane history. I see it went up as much as Kerosene, which reached a peak of £1.30 a litre in March 2022.
... we finally moved out when we realised our 1500 square ft house was going to cost £1250 to heat in November if the prices stay the same. They've gone down to about 59p now (after averaging 30-45p in prior years), but they can always massively spike.
Every time there's a crisis in the world, these prices fluctuate. The week before last, our oil price went up 5p a litre because the OPEC countries decided to release less oil in order to keep the prices high - which is perfectly legal.
So, there are NO controls.
It also looks like it will get cut off/snowed off in winter, and that's not the kind of road that gets gritted.
In short, you need to be absolutely loaded in order to be able to afford to run it, or you need to sell it pretty damn quick. Houses in that price range can stay on the market for years, and if you don't live in stone buildings and heat them they fall to pieces (quite literally) very quickly. So someone would need to live in it, heat it, and pay the council taxes all the time it's on the market.
That said, I still bleedin' entered!