24 Fir Cottage Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Finchampstead, Wokingham, Wokingham (RG40 4RY). It has a recorded floor area of 150 m² (around 1615 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77).
Sale prices here have outpaced Wokingham HPI: 5.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £704,000 is 12.6% above the 2021 sale price. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 150 m² it's 25.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (120 m² median across 14 EPCs). Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £625,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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24 Fir Cottage Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
24 Fir Cottage Road has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
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Sale price has grown by over 3x since 1997.
£704,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.8% per year over 24 years.
£625,000
Growth on file: 5.8% per year over 24 years.
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24 Fir Cottage Road outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,167
Street avg £4,574
Floor Area
150 m²
Street avg 120 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
6/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

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47.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Proposed first floor side extension to dwelling.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Proposed first floor side extension to dwelling.
5 January 2021Most recent
£625,000
+188.0%over 21 years22 November 1999
£217,000
+31.5%over 2 years20 June 1997
£165,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG40 4RY: £687,500 (2024–2021).
18 Fir Cottage Road Finchampstead Wokingham
Sold Oct 2024
11 Fir Cottage Road Finchampstead Wokingham
Sold Aug 2024
30 Fir Cottage Road Finchampstead Wokingham
Sold Dec 2022
3 Fir Cottage Road Finchampstead Wokingham
Sold Mar 2022
21 Fir Cottage Road Finchampstead Wokingham
Sold Apr 2021

Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.6 t/year
Street avg 4.9 t/year
RG40 4EJ
St James Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.9 km
Gorse Ride Junior School. 6 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.6dB