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Get startedGate Cottage is a detached house in Twyford, Reading, Reading (RG10 0NA). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 84 m² it sits well below the postcode median (130 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally.
Gate Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 12 Oct 2023
Gate Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£601,000
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, Gate Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
49 (E)
Street avg 42 (E)
Floor Area
84 m²
Street avg 290 m²
CO₂ Emissions
6.2 t/year
Street avg 18.2 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
1.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.6dB

Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 8 rooms
RG10 0QH
Pond — bus stop.
Closest school
1.7 km
St Nicholas Church of England Primary, Hurst. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.4dB