Hilgay Lodge, Tudor Lodge Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2SN

Hilgay Lodge is a detached house in Cheltenham (GL50 2SN). It has a recorded floor area of 436 m² (around 4693 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

Held since June 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 436 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 6 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 £1,942,000 sits 447% above the 1995 sale of £355,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£76/sq ft) was about 72.9% below the postcode norm. 8 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.