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Get startedPot Bottom Cottage is a detached house in Laverstoke, Whitchurch, Whitchurch (RG28 7PF). It has a recorded floor area of 134 m² (around 1442 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2015) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,079,000 is 24.7% above the 2021 sale price. At 134 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 4 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold February 2021 for £865,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Pot Bottom Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 07 Oct 2025
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£1,079,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.3% per year over 5 years.
£865,000
Growth on file: 4.3% per year over 5 years.
EPC Rating for Pot Bottom Cottage lags the street by a wide margin.
EPC Rating
27 (F)
Street avg 45 (E)
Floor Area
134 m²
Street avg 83 m²
CO₂ Emissions
12.0 t/year
Street avg 6.0 t/year
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
1.8 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
40.5dB

Extension: Two storey · Side of property
Erection of a two storey side extension and construction of dormer windows to existing main roof following demolition of existing single storey garage and workshops
25 February 2021Most recent
£865,000
+23.6%over 4 years3 March 2016
£700,000
Median price across the last 3 sales in RG28 7PF: £250,000 (2021–2009).
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
RG28 7ST
Florence Portal Close — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.1dB
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