7 Ground Lane, Hatfield, AL10 0HJ

7 Ground Lane is a five-bedroom detached house in Hatfield (AL10 0HJ). It has a recorded floor area of 155 m² (around 1668 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since October 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). The home occupies a corner plot.

At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £708,000 is 25.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£339/sq ft) was about 100.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £565,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.