Old Orchard Cottage, Manor Road, Great Bourton, Banbury, OX17 1QT

Old Orchard Cottage is a semi-detached house in Great Bourton, Banbury, Banbury (OX17 1QT). It has a recorded floor area of 207 m² (around 2228 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an F (score 29), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 207 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £623,000 is 10.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£253/sq ft) was about 59.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2021 for £563,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.