19 Cooks Way, Hatfield, AL10 8XT

19 Cooks Way is a mid-terrace house in Hatfield (AL10 8XT). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2024) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 42 m² it's 20.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (53 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold May 2019 for £210,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £257,000 is 22.4% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 65.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.