Brook Cottage is a detached house in Ladbroke, Southam, Southam (CV47 2BT). It has a recorded floor area of 260 m² (around 2799 sq ft). The latest certificate (January 2019) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 99). Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff.
Held since September 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 260 m² the property is well over the postcode median (139 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £1,193,000 sits 361.5% above the 1998 sale of £258,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£92/sq ft) was about 68% below the postcode norm.
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Brook Cottage ranks among the most efficient homes in the postcode for energy use.
Brook Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
2applications of note in the surrounding area
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Brook Cottage's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1998).
£1,193,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£258,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Brook Cottage is notably below the street on price per m².
Price per m²
£994
Street avg £6,562
Floor Area
260 m²
Street avg 155 m²
CO₂ Emissions
3.2 t/year
Street avg 7.2 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.2dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
15 September 1998Most recent
£258,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in CV47 2BT: £675,000 (2024–2019).

Years Held
28 years
Street avg 7 years
Bridge Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
2.9 km
Bishops Itchington Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.1dB