Little Cottage, Littleton Lane, Guildford, GU3 1HW

Little Cottage is a six-bedroom detached house in Guildford (GU3 1HW). It has a recorded floor area of 343 m² (around 3692 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on oil.

Held since April 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 343 m² the property is well over the postcode median (99 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 70% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £2,984,000 sits 199.9% above the 2004 sale of £995,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£270/sq ft) was about 58.2% below the postcode norm. 18 planning records sit against the property, 16 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.