53 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
About 53 Beach Road
53 Beach Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Cottenham, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB24 8RG). It has a recorded floor area of 160 m² (around 1722 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2012 onwards. The latest certificate (February 2025) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. The rating has held steady at B across 2 certificates since April 2015. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good.
At 160 m² the property is well over the postcode median (92 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2017. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £663,000 is 32.6% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£290/sq ft) was about 43.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in December 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.
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Already flagged here
Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms4
Energy performance
53 Beach Road ranks among the most efficient homes in the postcode for energy use.
EPC Rating
Planning history
- Jan 2017Tree WorksTreesIn report
Multi-stemmed Ash trees to right hand side of no 53 Beach Road - prune to clear house by 4m lamp column and crown lift over road - all by the removal of whole primary branches Reasons: Low crowns are touching roof
- Agent
- Eastern Landscape Service Limited
- Council
- South Cambridgeshire District Council
- Documents
- 3 docs on file
- Reference
- S/3403/16/TP
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
53 Beach Road valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£663,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£499,995
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
16 December 2014Most recent
£499,995
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB24 8RG: £340,000 (2025–2022).
Nearby sales in CB24 8RG
49 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
Sold Feb 2025
£315,0003 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
Sold Nov 2024
£285,00027 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
Sold Jun 2024
£340,00060 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
Sold Sept 2023
£554,00015 Beach Road, Cottenham, Cambridge, CB24 8RG
Sold Jul 2022
£460,000
Everything we know about 53 Beach 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 Beach Road homes
On epc rating, 53 Beach Road stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£3,125
Street avg £3,138
Floor Area
160 m²
Street avg 95 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
2.9 t/year
Street avg 4.5 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
0.5 km
Cottenham Village College. 2 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
45.4dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.2dB