Red Brick Farm, Flat 2, Main Street, Hardwick, Cambridge, CB23 7QS

Red Brick Farm is a semi-detached house in Hardwick, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB23 7QS). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 107), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Held since January 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 84 m² it sits well below the postcode median (205 m² across 10 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 £454,000 sits 354% above the 1999 sale of £100,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£111/sq ft) was about 64.8% below the postcode norm.