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Get startedKeepers Cottage is a detached house in Chettle, Blandford Forum, Blandford Forum (DT11 8DB). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2025) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2015 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 73 m² it's 22.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (95 m² median across 22 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Keepers Cottage has an approved extension on the planning record.
Erection of extension
Keepers Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£331,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
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On epc rating, Keepers Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
40 (E)
Street avg 55 (D)
Floor Area
73 m²
Street avg 104 m²
CO₂ Emissions
3.3 t/year
Street avg 5.5 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
41.4dB

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Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Hot water system upgraded
Single glazing replaced with double or better glazing
Loft insulation upgraded to recommended levels
Floor insulation added or improved
More low energy lighting installed
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Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
DT11 8HR
Post Office — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.3dB