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Get startedBriar Cottage is a semi-detached house in Swalcliffe, Banbury, Banbury (OX15 5EN). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1345 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
It hasn't traded since November 1999, a hold of 27 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 125 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £532,000 sits 246.6% above the 1999 sale of £153,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£114/sq ft) was about 61.8% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2000. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
Briar Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 13 Sept 2023
Briar Cottage has an approved rear extension on the planning record.
Briar Cottage's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (1999).
£532,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£153,500
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Price per m² for Briar Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£1,228
Street avg £4,399
Floor Area
125 m²
Street avg 82 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.0dB

Extension: Rear of property
Erection of a conservatory at rear
12 November 1999Most recent
£153,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in OX15 5EN: £362,000 (2025–2014).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.1 t/year
Street avg 5.1 t/year
Church — bus stop.
Closest school
2.5 km
Sibford Gower Endowed Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.2dB
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