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Get startedChandlers Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Codicote, Hitchin, Hitchin (SG4 8TR). It has a recorded floor area of 359 m² (around 3864 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 50), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
It hasn't traded since May 2000, a hold of 26 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 359 m² the property is well over the postcode median (216 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,674,000 sits 151.7% above the 2000 sale of £665,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£172/sq ft) was about 57.6% below the postcode norm. 8 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.
Chandlers Cottage sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Chandlers Cottage has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
Confirmation that all conditions were approved, in relation to Listed Building consent 09/01116/1LBC granted on 26.08.2009.
Chandlers Cottage valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£1,674,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£665,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
On epc rating, Chandlers Cottage runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,852
Street avg £3,792
Floor Area
359 m²
Street avg 256 m²
Habitable Rooms
10 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.5 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.2dB

Condition 4: Proposed windows (excluding water tower) shall be constructed based on the Barnsdale C2 timber flush casement window range with 21mm glazing bars
6 more applications for this property
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26 May 2000Most recent
£665,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG4 8TR: £680,000 (2023–2000).
CO₂ Emissions
34.0 t/year
Street avg 12.6 t/year
SG4 8UX
Drivers End Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
1.9 km
Codicote Church of England Primary School. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.3dB
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