Pillarbox Cottage, Toothill Road, Romsey, SO51 9LN

Pillarbox Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Romsey (SO51 9LN). It has a recorded floor area of 165 m² (around 1776 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows a G (score 13), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 165 m² the property is well over the postcode median (110 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £761,000 is 17.1% above the 2021 sale price. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.