Skip to content
UK Property Looker

8 Alstead Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9EX

3 sales on record
Property type
Detached
Bedrooms
4
Bathroom
1
Floor area
85 m²
915 sq ft
Energy rating
E
Score 47
Council tax
Band E
Tenure
Owner Occupied
Overview

About 8 Alstead Road

A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.

8 Alstead Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Histon, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB24 9EX). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump.

At 85 m² it's 19% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 8 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £473,000 is 31.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£393/sq ft) was about 25.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £360,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.

Before you offer

Know exactly what you're buying at 8 Alstead Road

Before you offer, see what the listing won't tell you, the true value, the red flags and the full history.

Already flagged here

Larger development activity nearby
£14.99
Trusted by UK homebuyers

Valuation

against the asking price

Risks

planning & flood

Sold prices

similar homes nearby

Trends

the local market

Specifications

What this property has

Pulled from EPC certificates, claim submissions and our property model. Empty categories are hidden — we only show what's known.

Inside

  • Bedrooms4
  • Bathrooms1
Energy

Energy performance

Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.

Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.

EPC Rating

A
B
C
D
E
E47
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Average
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
5.9 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning

Planning history

Applications and permits filed against 8 Alstead Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9EX, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.

8 Alstead Road has no planning applications on record.

Notable planning nearby

3applications of note in the surrounding area

Before you offer

We flagged 1 thing worth checking at 8 Alstead Road

Independent checks surfaced things a buyer would want to understand before offering. The report explains each one in full, with the underlying data and what to ask.

  • Larger development activity nearby
£14.99

30-day money-back guarantee

Price

Sales history & valuation

Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.

8 Alstead Road has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1995.

Current estimate

£473,000

Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.6% per year over 26 years.

See how we calculated this
Last sold (2021)

£360,000

Growth on file: 5.6% per year over 26 years.

Sales timeline

  1. 22 June 2021Most recent

    £360,000

    +200.0%over 22 years

  2. 20 November 1998

    £120,000

    +36.4%over 3 years

  3. 25 May 1995

    £88,000

Median price across the last 5 sales in CB24 9EX: £450,000 (2025–2014).

Before you offer

Everything we know about 8 Alstead 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
£14.99
Trusted by UK homebuyers
Preview of the full property report
On the street

Versus other Alstead Road homes

Four headline reads against 8 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.

8 Alstead Road is notably below the street on epc rating.

Price per m²

£4,235

Street avg £4,100

On par

Floor Area

85 m²

Street avg 107 m²

Strongly below

Habitable Rooms

6 rooms

Street avg 6 rooms

On par

CO₂ Emissions

5.9 t/year

Street avg 4.6 t/year

Strongly below
Comparables

Similar properties nearby

A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
£483k

1 Burkett Way, Histon

CB24 9XU

4 bed
£701k

1 Burrough Field, Impington

CB24 9NW

4 bed2 bath
£451k

1 Brackenbury, Impington

CB24 9YQ

3 bed
£436k

1 Allington Close, Histon

CB24 9YB

3 bed
£1.1m

1 Cresswell Close, Impington

CB24 9AP

4 bed3 bath
£399k

1 Farmstead Close, Histon

CB24 9XT

3 bed1 bath
£1.1m

1 Cottenham Road, Histon

CB24 9ES

4 bed
£1.3m

1 College Road, Impington

CB24 9PL

4 bed4 bath
Area

The neighbourhood at a glance

A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Cambridge district page.
Full Cambridge report

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

0.4 km

Histon and Impington Park Primary School. 6 schools nearby.

Go deeper on the local area

The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.

Noise

Road noise across the postcode

Modelled day and night-time noise levels around CB24 9EX from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime road noise heatmap for CB24 9EX

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00

45.9dB

Low
Night-time road noise heatmap for CB24 9EX

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00

38.0dB

Low
55 dB
60 dB
65 dB
70 dB
75 dB
80 dB
Defra Road Noise Strategic Mapping, Round 4
FAQ

Common questions

The questions buyers, sellers and homeowners most often ask about 8 Alstead Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9EX. Each answer is also embedded as structured data for search engines.