5 Cottonmill Crescent, St Albans, AL1 1HW

5 Cottonmill Crescent is a semi-detached house in St Albans (AL1 1HW). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 955 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since January 2000, a hold of 26 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 89 m² the property is well over the postcode median (67 m² across 33 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. Today's modelled estimate of £533,000 sits 344.2% above the 2000 sale of £120,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£126/sq ft) was about 61% below the postcode norm. 6 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.