Hillwood Cottage, Church Road, High Beech, Loughton, IG10 4AJ

Hillwood Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in High Beech, Loughton, Loughton (IG10 4AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 111 m² it's 16.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (133 m² median across 8 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £977,000 is 13.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£722/sq ft) was about 30.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £862,500 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.