Crabtree Cottage, Hidcote Boyce, Chipping Campden, GL55 6LX

Crabtree Cottage is a detached house in Hidcote Boyce, Chipping Campden, Chipping Campden (GL55 6LX). It has a recorded floor area of 183 m² (around 1970 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2017. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 183 m² the property is well over the postcode median (92 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £869,000 in June 2021. Across the public record there are 5 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. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, an annexe, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £966,000 is 11.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 19% above the typical sold price in the postcode.