Japonica Cottage is a semi-detached house in Dunsfold, Godalming, Godalming (GU8 4LX). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 665 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2011) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from January 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,068,000 is 12.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,434/sq ft) was about 357.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £953,000 in October 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Japonica Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 26 Jan 2021
Japonica Cottage has multiple listed-building consents on file — alterations need formal heritage approval.
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Latest sale on Japonica Cottage was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£1,068,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.9% per year over 15 years.
£953,000
Growth on file: 7.9% per year over 15 years.
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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
0.2 km

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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Listed building consent for the erection of a gate and side railings.
Erection of a gate and side railings
20 October 2021Most recent
£953,000
+39.1%over 7 years6 December 2013
£685,000
+87.7%over 1 year27 January 2012
£365,000
+19.7%over 5 years17 October 2006
£305,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU8 4LX: £265,000 (2021–1998).

GU8 4NB
Dunsfold Green — bus stop.
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