The Old Cottage, Church End, Bledlow, Princes Risborough, HP27 9PB

The Old Cottage is a detached house in Bledlow, Princes Risborough, Princes Risborough (HP27 9PB). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2010) shows a G (score 15), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 27). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from August 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 65 m² it's 26.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £920,000 sits 60% above the 2011 sale of £575,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£821/sq ft) was about 125.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.