The Bricklayers House is a five-bedroom detached house in Dunsfold, Godalming, Godalming (GU8 4LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 315 m² (around 3391 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views, a self-contained annexe and outbuildings.
At 315 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,362,000 sits 58.4% above the 2021 sale of £860,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£254/sq ft) was about 38.6% below the postcode norm. 5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold February 2021 for £860,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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The Bricklayers House's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£1,362,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£860,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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What we flagged
The Bricklayers House is notably below the street on price per m².
Price per m²
£2,730
Street avg £6,493
Floor Area
315 m²
Street avg 112 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.1dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Application under section 73a to vary condition 1 of wa/2021/01860 (approved plans) to allow rendering and painting of elevations of permitted extension and part of existing house.
Permission for relevant demolition in a conservation area for removal of a fence.
5 February 2021Most recent
£860,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU8 4LJ: £562,500 (2023–2018).
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Sold Aug 2017
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Sold Nov 2012

Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
15.0 t/year
Street avg 5.5 t/year
GU8 4RD
Binhams Meadow — bus stop.
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