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Get started3 Castle Cottages is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Newtown Common, Newbury, Newbury (RG20 9AR). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 95), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Today's modelled estimate of £609,000 is 32.4% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£411/sq ft) was about 22.4% below the postcode norm. 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 3 refused. Most recent transfer: October 2019 at £460,000.
3 Castle Cottages'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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 03 Mar 2026
Erection of outbuilding for ancillary use, bike shed and greenhouse
3 Castle Cottages valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£609,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£460,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.5dB

Change of use of open space to residential land (retrospective)
3 more applications for this property
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31 October 2019Most recent
£460,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG20 9AR: £490,000 (2024–2017).
RG20 9UH
Jonathan Hill — bus stop.
Closest school
1.4 km
Highwood Copse Primary School. 12 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.0dB
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