34 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
About 34 South Road
34 South Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Saffron Walden (CB11 3DN). It has a recorded floor area of 297 m² (around 3197 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since August 2022. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Period features are noted in the property record.
At 297 m² the property is well over the postcode median (148 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 6 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£461/sq ft) was about 53.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,475,000 in December 2022. 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
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms3
Outside
- Private gardenRear
- GarageDouble
Building
- Period featuresYes
Energy performance
34 South Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
Property Improvements
Changes detected from historical EPC data
Single glazing replaced with double or better glazing
Planning history
34 South Road has an approved extension on the planning record.
- May 2025Tree WorksTreesIn report
Crown lift to 3m with 2m crown reduction of 1no. Plum(Plum 1), remove and grind stumps of 1no. Plum (plum 2), 1no. Lilac, 1no. Crab Apple, 1no. Prunus and 1no. Leylandii. Remove to crown break 1no. Maple
- Agent
- Mercer Tree Services Ltd
- Documents
- 7 docs on file
- Reference
- UTT/25/1185/TCA
- Jul 2024ConditionsIn report
Application to discharge condition 4 (construction details) attached to UTT/23/2736/HHF
- Agent
- Donald Purkiss and Associates LLP
- Documents
- 12 docs on file
- Reference
- UTT/24/1644/DOC
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 34 South Road was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£1,351,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.2% per year over 24 years.
£1,475,000
Growth on file: 6.2% per year over 24 years.
Sales timeline
16 December 2022Most recent
£1,475,000
+173.1%over 19 years17 December 2002
£540,000
+56.5%over 4 years30 October 1998
£345,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB11 3DN: £785,000 (2023–2017).
Nearby sales in CB11 3DN
60 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
Sold Mar 2023
£775,00056 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
Sold Nov 2022
£582,50042 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
Sold Mar 2022
£865,00044 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
Sold Mar 2022
£890,00054 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN
Sold Jun 2017
£785,000
Everything we know about 34 South Road, in one report
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 South Road homes
34 South Road outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,966
Street avg £4,237
Floor Area
297 m²
Street avg 164 m²
Habitable Rooms
9 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
12.0 t/year
Street avg 7.4 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
0.0 km
Bell School — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 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
49.1dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.8dB