Orchard Cottage, Church Road, Windlesham, GU20 6BT

Orchard Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Windlesham (GU20 6BT). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (79 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£824/sq ft) was about 132.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £1,250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.