Bakers Cottage, Thaxted Road, Debden, Saffron Walden, CB11 3LW

Bakers Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Debden, Saffron Walden, Saffron Walden (CB11 3LW). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2014) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from August 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 60 m² it sits well below the postcode median (133 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £383,000 is 27% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£467/sq ft) was about 45.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sold in October 2015, so it's been off the market for around 11 years.