15 Hordle Gardens is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in St Albans (AL1 1JW). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
Sale prices here have outpaced St Albans HPI: 9.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (99 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £825,000 in March 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.
15 Hordle Gardens's EPC is over a decade old — improvements since won't be reflected.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 27 Jan 2024
15 Hordle Gardens has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Extension of existing roof dormer and changes to roof windows
15 Hordle Gardens has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1997.
£890,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 9.7% per year over 24 years.
£825,000
Growth on file: 9.7% per year over 24 years.
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Habitable Rooms for 15 Hordle Gardens runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,729
Street avg £6,510
Floor Area
144 m²
Street avg 105 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Cunningham Avenue — bus stop.
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Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Single storey rear extension (resubmission following refusal of 5/08/1852)
Full planning data for 15 Hordle Gardens, St Albans, AL1 1JW
2 more on this property, plus every nearby application and full decision details, in the report.
24 March 2021Most recent
£825,000
+38.1%over 5 years27 November 2015
£597,500
+279.5%over 15 years29 March 2000
£157,450
+74.9%over 3 years26 March 1997
£90,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 1JW: £715,000 (2023–2017).
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Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.7 t/year
Street avg 5.0 t/year
AL1 1SZ
Closest school
0.6 km
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery. 35 schools nearby.