2 The Courtyard, Smallwood, Sandbach, CW11 2GA

2 The Courtyard is a four-bedroom detached house in Smallwood, Sandbach, Sandbach (CW11 2GA). It has a recorded floor area of 231 m² (around 2486 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007 onwards and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows a C (score 79), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 2-band jump.

Held since July 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 231 m² the property is well over the postcode median (167 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £786,000 sits 96.5% above the 2004 sale of £400,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£161/sq ft) was about 21.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.