Shellwood Manor, Shellwood Road, Leigh, Reigate, RH2 8NX

Shellwood Manor is a six-bedroom detached house in Leigh, Reigate, Reigate (RH2 8NX). It has a recorded floor area of 442 m² (around 4758 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£696/sq ft) was about 83% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 442 m² the property is well over the postcode median (170 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 8 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, solar panel installation and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £3,310,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.