Chapel Cottage, Chapel Lane, Balscote, Banbury, OX15 6JN

Chapel Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Balscote, Banbury, Banbury (OX15 6JN). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2025) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 71). Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

It hasn't traded since December 1998, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 21.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £837,000 sits 234.8% above the 1998 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£146/sq ft) was about 36.5% below the postcode norm. At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (109 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 88% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.