High Tor, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
About High Tor
High Tor is a detached house in Lee Common, Great Missenden, Great Missenden (HP16 9LA). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (September 2018) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
It hasn't traded since December 1997, a hold of 28 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £926,000 sits 164.6% above the 1997 sale of £350,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£258/sq ft) was about 22.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused.
Energy performance
High Tor's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
High Tor has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
- Jan 2019Loft ConversionOutlineIn report
Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed: Loft conversion with insertion of three rear and two side rooflights.
- Agent
- RT Planning Ltd
- Documents
- 10 docs on file
- Reference
- PL/18/4623/SA
- May 2018ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Part single, part two storey · Rear of property
Part two storey, part first floor rear extension, fenestration alterations, conversion of storage area to habitable accommodation and the insertion of a door into the former garage.
- Agent
- RT Planning Ltd
- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- CH/2018/0546/FA
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Sales history & valuation
High Tor has been held in the same hands since before 2000.
£926,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£350,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
17 December 1997Most recent
£350,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in HP16 9LA: £637,500 (2018–1999).
Nearby sales in HP16 9LA
Meadow View, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
Sold Sept 2018
£637,500Spring Field, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
Sold Dec 2017
£645,0005 Martin Dell Cottages, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
Sold Mar 2013
£470,000Cherry Tree Cottage, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
Sold Sept 2011
£810,000Nanton, Ballinger Road, Lee Common, Great Missenden, HP16 9LA
Sold Apr 1995
£182,500
Versus other Ballinger Road homes
High Tor is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£2,778
Street avg £3,176
Floor Area
126 m²
Street avg 155 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
9.3 t/year
Street avg 8.1 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
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
Sly Corner — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Lee Common Church of England School. 2 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.5dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.8dB







