The Red Cottage, Gomshall Lane, Shere, Guildford, GU5 9HB

The Red Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Shere, Guildford, Guildford (GU5 9HB). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£694/sq ft) was about 229% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,285,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.