17 Bardwell Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1RQ). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 721 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced St Albans HPI: 7.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £599,000 is 21.6% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£683/sq ft) was about 70.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2022. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 9 years since the last transfer (November 2017).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Rooflight conversion of loft into habitable space
Price for 17 Bardwell Road has grown more than fourfold since the 1997 starting point.
£599,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.2% per year over 20 years.
£492,500
Growth on file: 7.2% per year over 20 years.
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17 Bardwell Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£7,351
Street avg £7,402
Floor Area
67 m²
Street avg 71 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 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
Belmont Hill — bus stop.
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Full planning data for 17 Bardwell Road, St Albans, AL1 1RQ
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29 November 2017Most recent
£492,500
+112.3%over 14 years28 July 2003
£232,000
+93.3%over 6 years25 July 1997
£120,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 1RQ: £640,000 (2023–2022).
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CO₂ Emissions
5.7 t/year
Street avg 3.3 t/year
AL1 1TN
Closest school
0.3 km
St Peter's School. 30 schools nearby.