Sydney Cottage, Milsom Street, Cheltenham, GL50 4BA

Sydney Cottage is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Cheltenham (GL50 4BA). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 78 m² the property is well over the postcode median (45 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £236,500 in June 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £286,000 is 20.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£282/sq ft) was about 36.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.