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Get started1 Grouts Farm Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Maldon (CM9 8EL). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (July 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced Maldon HPI: 2.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £516,000 is 26.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£344/sq ft) was about 79.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension refused in 2021. Sold April 2021 for £407,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
1 Grouts Farm Cottages's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A a two-storey side and rear extension application was refused at 1 Grouts Farm Cottages in 2021.
Extension: Two storey · Side and rear of property
Two storey side and rear extension. Roof alterations to rear. Changes to fenestration.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£516,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 2.9% per year over 10 years.
£407,000
Growth on file: 2.9% per year over 10 years.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.6dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Roof insulation improved
More low energy lighting installed
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9 April 2021Most recent
£407,000
+34.5%over 10 years6 December 2010
£302,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in CM9 8EL: £385,000 (2017–2005).
CM9 8TL
Grouts Farm — bus stop.
Closest school
1.0 km
Tolleshunt D'Arcy St Nicholas Primary Academy. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.2dB
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