Gardeners Cottage, Church Lane, Whaddon, Gloucester, GL4 0UE

Gardeners Cottage is a detached house in Whaddon, Gloucester, Gloucester (GL4 0UE). It has a recorded floor area of 106 m² (around 1141 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2024) shows a G (score 15), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (September 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 106 m² it's 24.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (141 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £518,000 is 27.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£357/sq ft) was about 76.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2021 for £407,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.