Mill Cottage, The Green, Harrold, Bedford, MK43 7DB

Mill Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Harrold, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 7DB). It has a recorded floor area of 155 m² (around 1668 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2017) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views and a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£375/sq ft) was about 82.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £625,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.