1 Fortune Cottage, Park Road, Rickmansworth, WD3 1HT

1 Fortune Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Rickmansworth (WD3 1HT). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1090 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2011) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 45). The latest certificate is from February 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

At 101 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 23 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £789,000 is 15.2% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£628/sq ft) was about 86.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 9 years ago, in October 2017.