Field Place Cottage, The Street, Compton, Guildford, GU3 1EQ

Field Place Cottage is a detached house in Compton, Guildford, Guildford (GU3 1EQ). It has a recorded floor area of 181 m² (around 1948 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (May 2013) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75). The latest certificate is from May 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 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 181 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £918,000 sits 535.3% above the 1995 sale of £144,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£74/sq ft) was about 83.5% below the postcode norm.