Malt House Cottage, High Street, Hurley, Maidenhead, SL6 5LT

Malt House Cottage is a detached house in Hurley, Maidenhead, Maidenhead (SL6 5LT). It has a recorded floor area of 225 m² (around 2422 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 225 m² it's 19.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (188 m² median across 21 EPCs). Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£681/sq ft) was about 58.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £1,650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.