9 Nicholsons Cottages, Hinton St Mary, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1NF

9 Nicholsons Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hinton St. Mary, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Newton (DT10 1NF). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2020–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 22.5% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £295,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.