The Paddocks is a four-bedroom detached house in Ladbroke, Southam, Southam (CV47 2BU). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 96 m² it sits well below the postcode median (165 m² across 4 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. 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £568,000 is 17.5% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£468/sq ft) was about 84.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2020 for £483,500.
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The Paddocks sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Amendment to planning permission 21/00968/FUL (date of decision 08/10/2021). Changing windows and doors to Grey PVCu framed. Changing the fascia, soffits and verges to White PVCu
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£568,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£483,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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What we flagged
The Paddocks outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,036
Street avg £2,591
Floor Area
96 m²
Street avg 164 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.1dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
-T1 beech: Reduce sub-dominant stem adjacent to the southern boundary with the adjacent property, The Croft, pruning back to stem break point. Prune off, back to source, 2no. lowest laterals from the central, dominant stem, where extending over adjacent driveway of The Croft. Lift crown where over greenhouse of The Croft, by pruning off two lowest sub lateral branches and shortening back this lateral branch by approximately 2metres, back to a target pruning point.
17 December 2020Most recent
£483,500
Median price across the last 4 sales in CV47 2BU: £427,500 (2020–2010).

Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 5.7 t/year
CV47 2PX
Bridge Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
2.8 km
Bishops Itchington Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.0dB