8 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
About 8 Chestnut Close
8 Chestnut Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Haslingfield, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB23 1JU). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £368,000 is 11.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£479/sq ft) was about 103.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 64 m² it's 19% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (79 m² median across 39 EPCs). 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £330,000. 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
- Bedrooms2
- Bathrooms1
Outside
- Cul-de-sacYes
Building
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Mar 2023AnnexFullIn report
Two storey side and rear extension, single storey rear extension and detached annex in garden
- Council
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
Extension- Documents
- 19 docs on file
- Reference
- 22/03970/HFUL
What's in 8 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU's planning history?
Refusals, disputes and full decisions on this property and nearby, in the report.
Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£368,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£330,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
31 October 2022Most recent
£330,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB23 1JU: £400,000 (2024–2023).
Nearby sales in CB23 1JU
22 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
Sold Dec 2024
£400,00043 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
Sold Aug 2024
£160,00042 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
Sold Mar 2024
£450,00015 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
Sold Aug 2023
£440,00035 Chestnut Close, Haslingfield, Cambridge, CB23 1JU
Sold Sept 2021
£185,000
Everything we know about 8 Chestnut Close, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
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Versus other Chestnut Close homes
8 Chestnut Close outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,156
Street avg £3,140
Floor Area
64 m²
Street avg 79 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
2.3 t/year
Street avg 3.3 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.
Closest school
0.3 km
Haslingfield Endowed Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.6dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.2dB