The Old School, Sandridgebury Lane, Sandridgebury, St Albans, AL3 6JB

The Old School is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Sandridgebury, St. Albans, St Albans (AL3 6JB). It has a recorded floor area of 412 m² (around 4435 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2012. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 412 m² the property is well over the postcode median (256 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 18 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£699/sq ft) was about 37.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £3,100,032 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.