Garden Cottage, Hascombe Road, Godalming, GU8 4AE
3 sales on record
About Garden Cottage
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
Garden Cottage is a detached house in Godalming (GU8 4AE). It has a recorded floor area of 236 m² (around 2540 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £2,488,000 is 10.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£886/sq ft) was about 96.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 236 m² it's 28.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (184 m² median across 12 EPCs). Last sale on file: £2,250,000 in October 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Garden Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Current Certificate(1 of 2)
Jul 2022
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E44
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Oil
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Poor
CO2 Emissions
14.0 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against Garden Cottage, Hascombe Road, Godalming, GU8 4AE, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
A a basement excavation application was refused at Garden Cottage in 2024.
- Jul 2025AmendmentIn report
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Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
Garden Cottage has more than doubled in price since the earliest registered sale in 2011.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£2,488,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.2% per year over 11 years.
Last sold (2022)
£2,250,000
Growth on file: 7.2% per year over 11 years.
Sales timeline
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
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Versus other Hascombe Road homes
Four headline reads against 12 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
Years Held for Garden Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£9,534
Street avg £20,518
Floor Area
236 m²
Street avg 329 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 8 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Godalming district page.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.5 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around GU8 4AE from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.4dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 18 points of interest in total.
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