The Orchard, Clouds Hill, Chilworth Road, Chilworth, Southampton, SO16 7JZ

The Orchard is a detached house in Chilworth, Southampton, Southampton (SO16 7JZ). It has a recorded floor area of 150 m² (around 1615 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Today's modelled estimate of £656,000 is 44.2% below the 2021 sale of £1,175,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£728/sq ft) was about 186.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 150 m² it sits well below the postcode median (339 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £1,175,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.