8 Cotswold Gardens, Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 0DR

8 Cotswold Gardens is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Longlevens, Gloucester, Gloucester (GL2 0DR). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 78 m² the property is well over the postcode median (49 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £265,000 sits 91.3% above the 2012 sale of £138,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£165/sq ft) was about 29% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in August 2012 and unlisted since — roughly 14 years.