Red Cottage, Chapel Road, Oxted, RH8 0SX

Red Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Oxted (RH8 0SX). It has a recorded floor area of 210 m² (around 2260 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (August 2013) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 210 m² it sits well below the postcode median (337 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2008–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£531/sq ft) was about 84.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,200,000 in June 2020.