Hope Cottage, High Street, Grateley, Andover, SP11 8JT

Hope Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Grateley, Andover, Andover (SP11 8JT). It has a recorded floor area of 213 m² (around 2293 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (March 2024) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in May 1999. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 213 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 4 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. Today's modelled estimate of £646,000 sits 176.1% above the 1999 sale of £234,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£102/sq ft) was about 67.4% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014.