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Get started5 Oak Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Shurlock Row, Reading, Reading (RG10 0PB). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £609,000 is 43.3% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£403/sq ft) was about 15.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (May 2016). At 98 m² it's 19.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (122 m² median across 6 EPCs).
5 Oak 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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 15 Feb 2026
(T1) Cypress Tree - fell
£609,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£425,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Habitable Rooms for 5 Oak Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,337
Street avg £5,237
Floor Area
98 m²
Street avg 134 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
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
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.8dB

Extension: Single storey · Side and rear of property
Single storey side and rear extensions incorporating conversion of garage
25 May 2016Most recent
£425,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG10 0PB: £550,000 (2024–2013).
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Sold Jun 2024
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Sold Feb 2021
Primrose Garth Hungerford Lane Shurlock Row Reading
Sold Mar 2018
Rochford House Hungerford Lane Shurlock Row Reading
Sold Jul 2015
Hope Cottage Hungerford Lane Shurlock Row Reading
Sold Sept 2013
CO₂ Emissions
7.2 t/year
Street avg 5.9 t/year
RG10 0HY
Royal Oak PH — bus stop.
Closest school
0.8 km
Waltham St Lawrence Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.3dB
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