Knoll Cottage, School Lane, Chearsley, Aylesbury, HP18 0BT

Knoll Cottage is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chearsley, Aylesbury, Aylesbury (HP18 0BT). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (127 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold September 2021 for £335,000. Across the public record there are 5 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£622/sq ft) was about 73.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.