12 Chapel Street, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9HR

12 Chapel Street is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Waterbeach, Cambridge, Cambridge (CB25 9HR). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in January 2015 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in July 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 68 m² it sits well below the postcode median (168 m² across 11 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 £331,000 sits 314% above the 1997 sale of £79,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£109/sq ft) was about 41.4% below the postcode norm.