Lilac Cottage, Middle Road, Stock Green, Redditch, B96 6TE

Lilac Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Stock Green, Redditch, Redditch (B96 6TE). It has a recorded floor area of 291 m² (around 3132 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views.

Held since May 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 291 m² the property is well over the postcode median (141 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £935,000 sits 104.4% above the 2003 sale of £457,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£146/sq ft) was about 55.1% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.