Hams Garden Cottage, Church Lane, Lea Marston, Sutton Coldfield, B76 0BJ

Hams Garden Cottage is a detached house in Lea Marston, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield (B76 0BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 197 m² (around 2120 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2023) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2012 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£330/sq ft) was about 71.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 197 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It changed hands recently, sold March 2025 for £700,000.