The Old Cottage, West Green Common, Hartley Wintney, Hook, RG27 8JD

The Old Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Hartley Wintney, Hook, Hook (RG27 8JD). It has a recorded floor area of 219 m² (around 2357 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since March 2022. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 219 m² the property is well over the postcode median (140 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£624/sq ft) was about 106.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,470,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.