Dingle Cottage, The Ridgeway, Boars Hill, Oxford, OX1 5EY

Dingle Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Boars Hill, Oxford, Oxford (OX1 5EY). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 94 m² it sits well below the postcode median (189 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £895,000 is 11.9% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£791/sq ft) was about 29.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sold in September 2015, so it's been off the market for around 11 years. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2017.