The Cottage, Marlpit Lane, Denstone, Uttoxeter, ST14 5HH

The Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Denstone, Uttoxeter, Uttoxeter (ST14 5HH). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (110 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £452,000 is 25.6% above the 2021 sale price. Last sale on file: £360,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.