Hollytree Cottage, Parklands, Shere, Guildford, GU5 9JQ

Hollytree Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Shere, Guildford, Guildford (GU5 9JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (99 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £975,000 is 13.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£567/sq ft) was about 69.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £860,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.