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

6 Orchard Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Kingston Upon Thames (KT2 6BU). It has a recorded floor area of 82 m² (around 883 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since November 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £643,000 sits 376.5% above the 1997 sale of £134,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£153/sq ft) was about 61.5% below the postcode norm. At 82 m² it's 27.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (113 m² median across 6 EPCs).