15 Gainsborough Avenue, St Albans, AL1 4NJ

15 Gainsborough Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in St Albans (AL1 4NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 246 m² (around 2648 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2024) shows a C (score 80), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in April 2022 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Very Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 246 m² the property is well over the postcode median (147 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 82% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£623/sq ft) was about 52.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Sold October 2022 for £1,650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.