Ivy Cottage, Wroxton Lane, Horley, Banbury, OX15 6BD

Ivy Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Horley, Banbury, Banbury (OX15 6BD). It has a recorded floor area of 238 m² (around 2562 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 238 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 11 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2010. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £895,000 is 38.8% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£252/sq ft) was about 34.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in January 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.