5 Cowper Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 3LT

5 Cowper Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Welwyn Garden City (AL7 3LT). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2013. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 2.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £410,000 sits 95.4% above the 2013 sale of £209,800. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£167/sq ft) was about 52.4% below the postcode norm. At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 20 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2008. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last changed hands 13 years ago, in August 2013.