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

2 Fortune Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Rickmansworth (WD3 1HT). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2015. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 132 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 and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £770,000 is 33.9% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£405/sq ft) was about 23.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in January 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years.