3 School Cottages, School Road, Arborfield Cross, Reading, RG2 9NX

3 School Cottages is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Arborfield Cross, Reading, Reading (RG2 9NX). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since April 2012. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 2-band jump.

At 62 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: June 2020 at £380,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £433,000 is 13.9% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£569/sq ft) was about 42.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.