4 Orchard Cottages, Orchard Walk, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 6BU

4 Orchard Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Kingston Upon Thames (KT2 6BU). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows a C (score 70). When first surveyed in March 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83). Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 136 m² it's 28.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£639/sq ft) was about 58.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £935,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.