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Get started1 School Cottages is a semi-detached house in Beckford, Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury (GL20 7AD). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
At 54 m² it sits well below the postcode median (93 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Planning history at 1 School Cottages is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
Description of No. of Tree/s, Species & Proposed Work Reason for Work To reduce 1 holly at the driveway entrance to Sundial Cottage by approximately one third. To allow the development of surrounding trees. To raise the canopy of one Western red cedar at the rear of 2 School Cottages to a maximum of 5 metres. To give access. To remove one small cypress to the rear of 2 School Cottages. Inappropriate specimen. To reduce the canopy of one yew to the rear of 2 School Cottages to a maximum of one third. To control canopy growth.
1 School Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£246,000
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.
EPC Rating
49 (E)
Street avg 44 (E)
Floor Area
54 m²
Street avg 141 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.1 t/year
Street avg 9.0 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
0.0 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.4dB

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED WORKS Species No of Tree(s) Description of Proposed Work Small Holm Oak in rear garden Yew hedge in rear garden Yew tree in rear garden adjacent to oil tank 1 1 Fell. Reduce height (3-4') Reduce lowest branch over hanging oil tank & a selective crown reduction to a maximum of 30%.
Median price across the last 5 sales in GL20 7AD: £480,000 (2024–2021).
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Church — bus stop.
Closest school
2.4 km
Overbury CofE First School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.0dB