Barwell Cottage, Barwell Lane, Chessington, KT9 2LZ

Barwell Cottage is a mid-terrace house in Chessington (KT9 2LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 196 m² (around 2110 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 196 m² the property is well over the postcode median (119 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,008,000 is 13.3% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 37.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 4 refused. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £890,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.