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Get startedOrchard Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Downton, Lymington, Lymington (SO41 0LA). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £478,000 is 35.8% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£380/sq ft) was about 43.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 11 years since the last transfer (June 2015). At 86 m² it's 27.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (119 m² median across 11 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 11 Apr 2024
Orchard Cottage has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
Extension: Single storey
First floor side extension; rear porch (Application for Listed Building Consent)
Orchard Cottage valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£478,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£352,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Orchard Cottage is notably below the street on habitable rooms.
Price per m²
£4,093
Street avg £3,205
Floor Area
86 m²
Street avg 158 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.4 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.1dB

Extension: Single storey · Side of property
First floor side extension; rear porch
30 June 2015Most recent
£352,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SO41 0LA: £675,000 (2023–2017).
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CO₂ Emissions
5.9 t/year
Street avg 8.4 t/year
SO41 0YG
Royal Oak — bus stop.
Closest school
1.5 km
Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.7dB