Castlemans House, Bath Road, Knowl Hill, Reading, RG10 9UT

Castlemans House is an eight-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Knowl Hill, Reading, Reading (RG10 9UT). It has a recorded floor area of 651 m² (around 7007 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (October 2025) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since September 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 651 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 8 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,456,000 sits 482.4% above the 1995 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£36/sq ft) was about 91.9% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.