Wayside Cottage, Ewhurst Road, Peaslake, Guildford, GU5 9RN

Wayside Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Peaslake, Guildford, Guildford (GU5 9RN). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 139 m² it's 18.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (117 m² median across 5 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2011–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £934,000 is 19.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£521/sq ft) was about 35.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension refused in 2011. Sold June 2021 for £780,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.