2 Council Houses, Church Road, Farley Hill, Reading, RG7 1TX

2 Council Houses is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Farley Hill, Reading, Reading (RG7 1TX). It has a recorded floor area of 153 m² (around 1647 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 153 m² it's 18% larger than the typical home in the postcode (130 m² median across 4 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2000–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £702,000 is 17% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£364/sq ft) was about 58.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in July 2016.