Monkwood Cottage, Whitakers Way, Loughton, IG10 1SQ

Monkwood Cottage is a detached house in Loughton (IG10 1SQ). It has a recorded floor area of 163 m² (around 1752 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2009) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The latest certificate is from October 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since July 1999, a hold of 27 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. At 163 m² it's 18.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (137 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 £985,000 sits 205.9% above the 1999 sale of £322,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£184/sq ft) was about 50.4% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.