40 South Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3DN

40 South Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Saffron Walden (CB11 3DN). It has a recorded floor area of 246 m² (around 2648 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 246 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£444/sq ft) was about 50.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 10 years ago, in April 2016.