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Get started5 Orchard Cottages is a semi-detached house in Waltham St. Lawrence, Reading, Reading (RG10 0JX). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
5 Orchard Cottages has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£454,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
On floor area, 5 Orchard Cottages runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
40 (E)
Street avg 53 (E)
Floor Area
75 m²
Street avg 83 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.7 t/year
Street avg 5.0 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.1dB

Median price across the last 3 sales in RG10 0JX: £370,000 (2024–1999).
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
RG10 0XL
The Bell — bus stop.
Closest school
1.6 km
Waltham St Lawrence Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.0dB