Basement Flat, 132 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, CB1 7AJ

Basement Flat is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Cambridge (CB1 7AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (January 2024) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2018); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Untraded for 24 years, with the last transfer in November 2002. At 78 m² the property is well over the postcode median (35 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 72% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £397,000 sits 58.8% above the 2002 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£298/sq ft) was about 43.9% below the postcode norm.