85 High Street, Landbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9FR

85 High Street is a seven-bedroom detached house in Landbeach, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB25 9FR). It has a recorded floor area of 398 m² (around 4284 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (December 2022) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2021 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 398 m² the property is well over the postcode median (127 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £959,000 sits 73.7% above the 2021 sale of £552,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£129/sq ft) was about 55.4% below the postcode norm. 8 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £552,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.