8 Fairfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LD

8 Fairfield Road is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Beckenham (BR3 3LD). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in November 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72). The property has an EV charger on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a balcony and a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. At 84 m² this is the 19th smallest of 22 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 44–142 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 22 units on file.

One planning record on file: subdivision approved in 2010. Past consents include subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 84 m² it's 29.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (65 m² median across 21 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£473/sq ft) was about 25.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £428,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.