Stow House, Cotswold Road, Oxford, OX2 9JG

Stow House is a five-bedroom detached house in Oxford (OX2 9JG). It has a recorded floor area of 418 m² (around 4499 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1950-1966. The latest certificate (June 2015) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in October 2012 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Good to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Very Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average; while main heating dropped from Good to Average. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £2,291,000 is 11.9% below the 2022 sale of £2,600,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£578/sq ft) was about 77.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 418 m² the property is well over the postcode median (207 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 83% of similar EPCs). Sold January 2022 for £2,600,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.