Abbots Cottage, Portsmouth Road, Guildford, GU2 4EB

Abbots Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Guildford (GU2 4EB). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1076 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump.

At 100 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£539/sq ft) was about 42.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2022 for £580,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.