2 Thatched Cottages, Carters Clay, Lockerley, Romsey, SO51 0GN

2 Thatched Cottages is a semi-detached house in Lockerley, Romsey, Romsey (SO51 0GN). It has a recorded floor area of 124 m² (around 1335 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2013) shows a G (score 4), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 65), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The latest certificate is from April 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £576,000 sits 333.1% above the 1997 sale of £133,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£100/sq ft) was about 72.6% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: change of use to residential refused in 2023.