Red Cottage, Mill Lane, Padworth, Reading, RG7 4JU

Red Cottage is a detached house in Padworth, Reading, Reading (RG7 4JU). It has a recorded floor area of 213 m² (around 2293 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 213 m² the property is well over the postcode median (105 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £784,000 sits 684% above the 1996 sale of £100,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£44/sq ft) was about 85.9% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused.