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

Zinch Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Stogumber, Taunton, Taunton (TA4 3TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1485 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include notable views. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in September 2014 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 138 m² it's 16% larger than the typical home in the postcode (119 m² median across 9 EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £686,000 is 15.3% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£401/sq ft) was about 89.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £595,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.