The Grove, Roestock Lane, Colney Heath, St Albans, AL4 0QW

The Grove is a detached house in Colney Heath, St. Albans, St Albans (AL4 0QW). It has a recorded floor area of 171 m² (around 1841 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2012) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 171 m² the property is well over the postcode median (130 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 17 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,097,000 is 13.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£527/sq ft) was about 29.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £970,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.