Chestnut Cottage, Bedford Road, Milton Ernest, Bedford, MK44 1RR
About Chestnut Cottage
Chestnut Cottage is a detached house in Milton Ernest, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 1RR). It has a recorded floor area of 152 m² (around 1636 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (January 2020) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78).
At 152 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £724,000 is 12.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£394/sq ft) was about 52.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £645,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
Chestnut Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Planning history
Planning history at Chestnut Cottage is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
- Nov 2017Tree WorksTreesIn report
T1 Horse chestnut - Remove and Replace.
- Reference
- 17/02746/TPO
- Aug 2015Tree WorksTreesIn report
Horse chestnut - High pollard
- Documents
- 6 docs on file
- Reference
- 15/01558/TPO
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£724,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£645,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
26 March 2021Most recent
£645,000
Median price across the last 3 sales in MK44 1RR: £755,000 (2021–2000).
Nearby sales in MK44 1RR
Everything we know about Chestnut Cottage, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Bedford Road homes
EPC Rating
57 (D)
Street avg 57 (D)
Floor Area
152 m²
Street avg 161 m²
CO₂ Emissions
7.8 t/year
Street avg 7.8 t/year
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
6/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Marsh Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Milton Ernest CofE Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.0dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.9dB