Have we overpaid stamp duty because the house has an annexe?

A company claims we have overpaid £6,208 but we are wary of pursuing this

Q I’ve received three letters from a company claiming to be specialists in reclaiming stamp duty advising us that we may have overpaid £6,208 in stamp duty when we bought our house because it has an annexe. They have offered to make a claim on our behalf on a no-win, no-fee basis (I’m not sure what the fee would be but assume it would be a percentage of the successful claim).

We purchased our house in September 2018 and it does indeed have a separate annexe, which has two units with a bedroom and a bathroom each (one also has a lounge) – the previous owners used this as accommodation for their sons and then more recently as a B&B.

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