Cherry Cottage, Dunmow Road, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6SL

Cherry Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6SL). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 107), a 4-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 84 m² it sits well below the postcode median (145 m² across 11 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 2003–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £421,000 is 16.9% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£398/sq ft) was about 66.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sold in January 2017, so it's been off the market for around 9 years. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2025.