The Copse, Hinksey Hill, Oxford, OX1 5BE

The Copse is a six-bedroom detached house in Oxford (OX1 5BE). It has a recorded floor area of 347 m² (around 3736 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 59). The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory and a basement.

It hasn't traded since June 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 347 m² the property is well over the postcode median (201 m² across 5 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. Today's modelled estimate of £1,451,000 sits 663.7% above the 1996 sale of £190,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£51/sq ft) was about 71.1% below the postcode norm. 7 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused.