Garden Cottage, Main Street, Charlton, Banbury, OX17 3DP

Garden Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Charlton, Banbury, Banbury (OX17 3DP). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (April 2025) shows a C (score 70).

Held since July 2001 — that's 25 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £817,000 sits 136.8% above the 2001 sale of £345,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£186/sq ft) was about 22.5% below the postcode norm. At 172 m² it's 28.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (134 m² median across 13 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 85% of similar EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2005.