13 Cottage Close, Watford, WD17 3NN

13 Cottage Close is a six-bedroom detached house in Watford (WD17 3NN). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 895 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2009) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 39). Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from September 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

It hasn't traded since March 2010, a hold of 16 years that's notably long for the area. At 83 m² it sits well below the postcode median (204 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1996–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,291,000 sits 50.1% above the 2010 sale of £860,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£961/sq ft) was about 86.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.