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Get startedGarden Cottage is a detached house in Badger, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton (WV6 7JR). It has a recorded floor area of 119 m² (around 1281 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2017) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in December 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 91), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.
At 119 m² it's 15.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 5 EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused.
Garden Cottage's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Construction of pitched roof to existing flat roofed extension
Garden Cottage has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£391,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
Habitable Rooms for Garden Cottage runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
EPC Rating
43 (E)
Street avg 55 (E)
Floor Area
119 m²
Street avg 105 m²
CO₂ Emissions
8.6 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
1.7 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.5dB

Changes detected from historical EPC data
Heating controls upgraded for better temperature management
Single glazing replaced with double or better glazing
Roof insulation improved
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Conversion of outbuilding to a dwelling
Street avg 6.0 t/year
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
WV6 7TR
Beckbury Church of England Primary School and Nursery. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.7dB