Peppercorn Cottage, High Street, Great Missenden, HP16 0AL

Peppercorn Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Great Missenden (HP16 0AL). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (January 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 3.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£650/sq ft) was about 111.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £462,000. 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. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs).