Howe Green Cottage, Howe Green, Great Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 7UF

Howe Green Cottage is a detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 7UF). It has a recorded floor area of 263 m² (around 2831 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since February 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 263 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–1999, sale prices on this property compounded at 24.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,012,000 sits 304.9% above the 1999 sale of £249,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£88/sq ft) was about 72.5% below the postcode norm. 6 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.