Hatchers Cottage, Bat Alley, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1NX

Hatchers Cottage is a detached house in Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Newton (DT10 1NX). It has a recorded floor area of 188 m² (around 2024 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since July 1996 — that's 30 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 188 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £519,000 sits 479.9% above the 1996 sale of £89,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£44/sq ft) was about 83.1% below the postcode norm. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.