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Get started1 Bridge Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Lower Brailes, Banbury, Banbury (OX15 5AG). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 138.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £350,000 in February 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
As part of the Lower Brailes property flood resilience scheme (PFR) Warwickshire County Council proposed to remove the existing timber front door to 1 Bridge Cottages and replace with a suitably sympathetic white composite PFR flood resilient door in the Teesside style. This will offer flood resilience up to a depth of 600mm.
Price for 1 Bridge Cottages has grown more than fourfold since the 1998 starting point.
£382,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 9.0% per year over 23 years.
£350,000
Growth on file: 9.0% per year over 23 years.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.0dB

-T1 walnut - Fell completely or remove decaying sub-dominant stem and reduce crown on remaining stem.
1 more application for this property
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5 February 2021Most recent
£350,000
+68.7%over 13 years22 June 2007
£207,500
+74.4%over 6 years30 May 2001
£119,000
+138.0%over 2 years3 August 1998
£50,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in OX15 5AG: £400,000 (2024–2014).
OX15 5AT
The George — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Brailes Church of England Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Flood risk
High
From the Environment Agency.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.0dB
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