Springfield Cottage, Dark Lane, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, RG24 9HR

Springfield Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Sherborne St. John, Basingstoke, Basingstoke (RG24 9HR). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Untraded for 23 years, with the last transfer in November 2003. At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 6 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. Today's modelled estimate of £780,000 sits 75.3% above the 2003 sale of £445,000. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include partial demolition, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.