The Anchorage, River Road, Taplow, Maidenhead, SL6 0BG

The Anchorage is an eight-bedroom detached house in Taplow, Maidenhead, Maidenhead (SL6 0BG). It has a recorded floor area of 369 m² (around 3972 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

Held since November 1996 — that's 30 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 369 m² the property is well over the postcode median (246 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 8 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £2,114,000 sits 560.6% above the 1996 sale of £320,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£81/sq ft) was about 74% below the postcode norm.