Vine Cottage, Third Road, Wildmoor, Bromsgrove, B61 0BT

Vine Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Wildmoor, Bromsgrove, Bromsgrove (B61 0BT). It has a recorded floor area of 184 m² (around 1981 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Good to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe, outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot.

Sale prices here have outpaced Bromsgrove HPI: 8.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £983,000 is 17.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 51.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 184 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Sold June 2021 for £835,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014.