The Cottage, Hiams Lane, Hartpury, Gloucester, GL19 3DQ

The Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Hartpury, Gloucester, Gloucester (GL19 3DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2013) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on house coal. The latest certificate is from February 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 61 m² it sits well below the postcode median (219 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £337,000 sits 82.2% above the 2014 sale of £185,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£282/sq ft) was about 162.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in April 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years.