12 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
About 12 Brooms Close
12 Brooms Close is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Welwyn Garden City (AL8 7JA). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.
At 101 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an annexe, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£483/sq ft) was about 100.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £525,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms4
- Bathrooms1
- Dining roomYes
- CloakroomYes
Outside
- Private gardenSouth-facing
Building
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
EPC Rating
Planning history
12 Brooms Close has an approved rear extension on the planning record.
- Jan 2019OutbuildingIn report
Retrospective erection of timber annexe
Retrospective- Reference
- 6/2018/2624/EM
- Mar 2016
What's in 12 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA's planning history?
2 more on this property, plus refusals, disputes and full decisions nearby, in the report.
Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 12 Brooms Close was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£575,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£525,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
6 December 2021Most recent
£525,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL8 7JA: £373,000 (2025–2018).
Nearby sales in AL8 7JA
16 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
Sold Mar 2025
£422,50013 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
Sold Jun 2024
£373,00018 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
Sold Sept 2022
£506,0002 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
Sold Jul 2020
£373,0006 Brooms Close, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 7JA
Sold Jul 2017
£368,000
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
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Versus other Brooms Close homes
12 Brooms Close outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,198
Street avg £4,891
Floor Area
101 m²
Street avg 76 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.7 t/year
Street avg 3.2 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Great Dell — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Templewood Primary School. 20 schools nearby.
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