Oak Cottage, The Street, Sheering, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 7LX

Oak Cottage is a detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 7LX). It has a recorded floor area of 229 m² (around 2465 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a C (score 73). When first surveyed in November 2008 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good.

At 229 m² the property is well over the postcode median (156 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £1,020,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 7 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,168,000 is 14.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£414/sq ft) was about 37.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.