Pippin Cottage, The Green, Kingham, Chipping Norton, OX7 6YD

Pippin Cottage is a detached house in Kingham, Chipping Norton, Chipping Norton (OX7 6YD). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 71 m² it sits well below the postcode median (166 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £636,000 is 30.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£638/sq ft) was about 55.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £487,500 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.