The Bungalow, Grove Lane, Hinton, Chippenham, SN14 8HF

The Bungalow is a detached house in Hinton, Chippenham, Chippenham (SN14 8HF). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2019) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 69 m² it sits well below the postcode median (184 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £422,000 is 20.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£471/sq ft) was about 68.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £350,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.