The Cottage, Digswell Place, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7SU

The Cottage is a detached house in Welwyn Garden City (AL8 7SU). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a C (score 71). The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86).

At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2009–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£630/sq ft) was about 101.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £949,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.