2 Bennett Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 4JA

2 Bennett Close is a detached house in Welwyn Garden City (AL7 4JA). It has a recorded floor area of 171 m² (around 1841 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 171 m² it's 19.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (143 m² median across 15 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £835,000 sits 263% above the 1998 sale of £230,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£125/sq ft) was about 56.5% below the postcode norm.