2 Peartree Cottages, Main Road, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4US

2 Peartree Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Marchwood, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 4US). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows a C (score 72). When first surveyed in May 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 91).

At 65 m² it sits well below the postcode median (112 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2012–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£522/sq ft) was about 99.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £365,000 in October 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.