5 Short Street, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2SG

5 Short Street is a detached house in Bourn, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB23 2SG). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in August 1999. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 103 m² it sits well below the postcode median (162 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £559,000 sits 148.4% above the 1999 sale of £225,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£203/sq ft) was about 34.4% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused.