Holly Cottage, Padhams Green, Mountnessing, Brentwood, CM13 1UL

Holly Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Mountnessing, Brentwood, Brentwood (CM13 1UL). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (October 2017) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

It hasn't traded since March 2001, a hold of 25 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 123 m² it's 20.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £845,000 sits 164.1% above the 2001 sale of £320,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£242/sq ft) was about 31.3% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused.