161 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
About 161 Thaxted Road
161 Thaxted Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Saffron Walden (CB11 3BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Other recorded features include outbuildings. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Across 1998–2025, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £598,000 is 10.1% below the 2025 sale of £665,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£483/sq ft) was about 84.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It changed hands recently, sold August 2025 for £665,000. At 128 m² it's 20.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (107 m² median across 18 EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2018.
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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
Outside
- Private gardenWest-facing
- ParkingOff street
- OutbuildingsYes
Building
- Previously extendedYes
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Nov 2018OutbuildingFullIn report
Erection of detached garden room
- Agent
- Hibbs and Walsh Associates Ltd
- Documents
- 10 docs on file
- Reference
- UTT/18/2614/HHF
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 161 Thaxted Road was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£598,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.8% per year over 27 years.
£665,000
Growth on file: 7.8% per year over 27 years.
Sales timeline
4 August 2025Most recent
£665,000
+638.9%over 26 years18 December 1998
£90,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB11 3BJ: £454,000 (2025–2017).
Nearby sales in CB11 3BJ
157 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
Sold Jun 2025
£454,000155 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
Sold Aug 2023
£602,500132 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
Sold Jun 2020
£350,000144 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
Sold Jun 2020
£377,000165 Thaxted Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3BJ
Sold Jan 2017
£545,000
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Thaxted Road homes
161 Thaxted Road outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,195
Street avg £3,021
Floor Area
128 m²
Street avg 112 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.4 t/year
Street avg 5.0 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Peaslands Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Saffron Walden. 7 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.4dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.0dB