Plough Cottage is a detached house in Napton, Southam, Southam (CV47 8LW). It has a recorded floor area of 207 m² (around 2228 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump.
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 207 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £837,000 sits 275.3% above the 1998 sale of £223,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£100/sq ft) was about 65.3% below the postcode norm.
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Plough Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Plough Cottage has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
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Plough Cottage's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (1998).
£837,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£223,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Plough Cottage is notably below the street on price per m².
Price per m²
£1,077
Street avg £3,756
Floor Area
207 m²
Street avg 135 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 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
44.2dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
11 September 1998Most recent
£223,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CV47 8LW: £395,000 (2025–2012).

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 5.5 t/year
CV47 8NN
Crown — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
St Lawrence CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.8dB