The Cottage, Headington Hill, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BT

The Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Headington, Oxford, Oxford (OX3 0BT). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2014. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (114 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, new windows and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £2,267,000 is 33.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£2,723/sq ft) was about 447.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £1,700,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.