289 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1BH

289 Chesterton Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Cambridge (CB4 1BH). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£639/sq ft) was about 97.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £660,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.