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Get startedMill 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.
Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£375/sq ft) was about 82.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 24 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. 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.
Mill Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
2 Silver birch - crown lift to 4m 1 Willow - reduce branch by 30 - 40%.
Mill Cottage has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1997.
£677,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.0% per year over 24 years.
£625,000
Growth on file: 6.0% per year over 24 years.
EPC Rating for Mill Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,032
Street avg £2,930
Floor Area
155 m²
Street avg 98 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.7dB

Erection of new conservatory, modifications to front porch and new carport. Discharge of condition 2 of planning permission 03/01531/FUL - materials (bricks and conservatory finish) .
2 more applications for this property
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14 September 2021Most recent
£625,000
+82.7%over 20 years23 February 2001
£342,000
+124.3%over 3 years1 July 1997
£152,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in MK43 7DB: £320,000 (2025–2023).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
12.0 t/year
Street avg 5.2 t/year
MK43 7QA
The Magpie — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Harrold Primary Academy. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.9dB
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