Chester Cottage, Mount Pleasant Lane, Lymington, SO41 8LS

Chester Cottage is a five-bedroom detached house in Lymington (SO41 8LS). It has a recorded floor area of 244 m² (around 2626 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot.

At 244 m² the property is well over the postcode median (140 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£445/sq ft) was about 43.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2020 at £1,170,000.