Wren Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Chiddingfold, Godalming, Godalming (GU8 4TA). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 96), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 129 m² it's 23.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (169 m² median across 7 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £1,021,000 is 20.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£612/sq ft) was about 98.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £850,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Extension: Side and rear of property
Ground floor kitchen, dining space side extension and entrance porch extension.
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£1,021,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£850,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Wren Cottage outperforms the street on epc rating by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
59 (D)
Street avg 48 (E)
Floor Area
129 m²
Street avg 192 m²
CO₂ Emissions
4.4 t/year
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
2.0 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
26 March 2021Most recent
£850,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU8 4TA: £840,421 (2024–2018).
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Sold Mar 2020
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Sold Nov 2018
Dower Cottage Shillinglee Park Road Shillinglee Chiddingfold Godalming
Sold Nov 2014

Street avg 8.1 t/year
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
GU8 4NB
Petworth Road — bus stop.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.6dB