Catchpenny Cottage, Bretton Lane, Bretton, Chester, CH4 0DX

Catchpenny Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Bretton, Chester, Chester (CH4 0DX). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 72 m² it sits well below the postcode median (143 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£323/sq ft) was about 63.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.