Hillfoot Cottage, Beenham Hill, Beenham, Reading, RG7 5LS

Hillfoot Cottage is a one-bedroom detached house in Beenham, Reading, Reading (RG7 5LS). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 69). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Held since August 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Today's modelled estimate of £689,000 sits 79% above the 2010 sale of £385,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£208/sq ft) was about 27.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 172 m² it's 26.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (136 m² median across 8 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 88% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.