Keepers Cottage, Doveleys Manor Park, Rocester, Uttoxeter, ST14 5BZ

Keepers Cottage is a detached house in Rocester, Uttoxeter, Uttoxeter (ST14 5BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 182 m² (around 1959 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2022) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since August 1998 — that's 28 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. Today's modelled estimate of £597,000 sits 241.1% above the 1998 sale of £175,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£89/sq ft) was about 51% below the postcode norm. At 182 m² it's 24.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (240 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs).