Garden Cottage, Maidford Road, Farthingstone, Towcester, NN12 8HE

Garden Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Farthingstone, Towcester, Towcester (NN12 8HE). It has a recorded floor area of 309 m² (around 3324 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. The latest certificate (March 2011) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot.

Held since January 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 309 m² the property is well over the postcode median (176 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £1,277,000 sits 122.1% above the 2003 sale of £575,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£173/sq ft) was about 17.2% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.