Amity Cottage is a detached house in Godalming (GU8 4AG). It has a recorded floor area of 170 m² (around 1830 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 12.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,131,000 is 22.3% above the 2014 sale price. At 170 m² the property is well over the postcode median (122 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On the market in May 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.
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Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Feb 2024
Multiple extension applications run across more than a decade of planning history at Amity Cottage.
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Amity Cottage has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1996.
£1,131,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 12.6% per year over 18 years.
£925,000
Growth on file: 12.6% per year over 18 years.
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
CO₂ Emissions for Amity Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,441
Street avg £8,312
Floor Area
170 m²
Street avg 129 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
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
0.4 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Erection of an extension.
Extension: Single storey
Erection of a single storey extension.
23 May 2014Most recent
£925,000
+236.4%over 15 years24 June 1998
£275,000
+139.1%over 1 year25 October 1996
£115,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU8 4AG: £750,000 (2023–2018).
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Sold Jan 2020
Stepping Stones South Munstead Lane Godalming
Sold Nov 2018

Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.8 t/year
Street avg 7.6 t/year
GU8 4QW
Winkworth Arboretum — bus stop.
Closest school
1.7 km
Busbridge Infant School. 4 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.3dB