4 Captains Gorse, Upper Basildon, Reading, RG8 8SZ

4 Captains Gorse is a detached house in Upper Basildon, Reading, Reading (RG8 8SZ). It has a recorded floor area of 215 m² (around 2314 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since November 1998 — that's 28 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 215 m² it's 18.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (181 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £1,014,000 sits 221.9% above the 1998 sale of £315,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£136/sq ft) was about 55.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.