Pitts Cottage, Station Road, Stogumber, Taunton, TA4 3TQ

Pitts Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Stogumber, Taunton, Taunton (TA4 3TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 191 m² (around 2056 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 191 m² the property is well over the postcode median (119 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£316/sq ft) was about 46.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £650,000 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2025.