The Old Forge, Church Street, Bloxham, Banbury, OX15 4ET

The Old Forge is a four-bedroom detached house in Bloxham, Banbury, Banbury (OX15 4ET). It has a recorded floor area of 198 m² (around 2131 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73). Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £655,000 is 19.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£258/sq ft) was about 27% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 7 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 198 m² it's 22.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (161 m² median across 9 EPCs). Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £550,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.