Church Cottage, Park Road, Melchbourne, Bedford, MK44 1BB

Church Cottage is a six-bedroom detached house in Melchbourne, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 1BB). It has a recorded floor area of 367 m² (around 3950 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56). Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in April 1999. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 367 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 5 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £871,000 sits 335.5% above the 1999 sale of £200,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£51/sq ft) was about 73.5% below the postcode norm. 11 planning records sit against the property, 9 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.