20 Seymour Street, Cambridge, CB1 3DQ

20 Seymour Street is a three-bedroom detached house in Cambridge (CB1 3DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced Cambridge HPI: 5.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£632/sq ft) was about 123.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 90 m² it's 28% larger than the typical home in the postcode (70 m² median across 21 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £612,500 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.