34a, London Road, St Albans, AL1 1NG

34a is a mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1NG). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows a G (score 13), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 59), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. At 87 m² this is the 39th smallest of 43 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 30–142 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the bottom.

Held since April 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 87 m² the property is well over the postcode median (51 m² across 42 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 £356,000 sits 87.4% above the 2006 sale of £190,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£203/sq ft) was about 61.9% below the postcode norm.