Philpots Cottage is a detached house in Hambledon, Godalming, Godalming (GU8 4HF). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2012) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Held since May 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £899,000 sits 192.4% above the 1997 sale of £307,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£311/sq ft) was about 44.2% below the postcode norm. 8 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.
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Philpots Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 21 Sept 2022
Philpots Cottage has multiple listed-building consents on file — alterations need formal heritage approval.
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Philpots Cottage has been held in the same hands since before 2000.
£899,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£307,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Years Held for Philpots Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£3,342
Street avg £6,063
Floor Area
92 m²
Street avg 142 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 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
44.9dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Listed building consent for alterations and extension to existing barn to provide self-contained ancillary accommodation.
Alterations and extension to existing barn to provide ancillary living accommodation (revision of wa/2009/1588).
6 May 1997Most recent
£307,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU8 4HF: £1,425,000 (2021–2011).
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Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 7.4 t/year
GU8 4RY
Malthouse Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
2.3 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.7dB