The Cottage, Daventry Road, Staverton, Daventry, NN11 6JH

The Cottage is a six-bedroom detached house in Staverton, Daventry, Daventry (NN11 6JH). It has a recorded floor area of 187 m² (around 2012 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2011) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 42). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 187 m² the property is well over the postcode median (127 m² across 10 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. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 7 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £932,000 is 46.8% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£316/sq ft) was about 36.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.