45 Pretoria Road, Cambridge, CB4 1HD
About 45 Pretoria Road
45 Pretoria Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Cambridge (CB4 1HD). It has a recorded floor area of 177 m² (around 1905 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views.
Held since December 1997 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £1,053,000 sits 439.7% above the 1997 sale of £195,100. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£102/sq ft) was about 74.4% below the postcode norm. At 177 m² it's 16.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (152 m² median across 13 EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms2
- Open-plan layoutYes
- Dining roomYes
- EnsuiteYes
Outside
- Private gardenSouth-facing
- ParkingOff street
- Notable viewsYes
Building
- RefurbishedYes
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Energy performance
45 Pretoria Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
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Planning history
Planning history at 45 Pretoria Road is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
3 applications on record at 45 Pretoria Road, Cambridge, CB4 1HD
- Sept 2015Tree WorksTreesOutcome in report
T1 - Walnut - Crown reduce height by 4m down to previous pruning points, crown reduce spread to shape and balanceT2 - Prunus - Crown reduce height by 3m to gutter height, crown reduce spread over footpath by 2m to shape and balance. Remove short stem adjacent to driveT3 - Walnut (young) - Fell
- Council
- Cambridge City Council
- Documents
- 6 docs on file
- Reference
- 15/356/TTCA
- More recent applications — locked
- Tree WorksOct 2022Decision
- Tree WorksApr 2018Decision
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Sales history & valuation
45 Pretoria Road's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1997).
£1,053,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£195,100
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
11 December 1997Most recent
£195,100
Median price across the last 5 sales in CB4 1HD: £1,190,000 (2023–2018).
Nearby sales in CB4 1HD
Versus other Pretoria Road homes
On price per m², 45 Pretoria Road runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,102
Street avg £6,677
Floor Area
177 m²
Street avg 149 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
10.0 t/year
Street avg 7.4 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Crime
7/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
2.3 km
Cambridge Rail Station — railway station.
Closest school
0.5 km
Milton Road Primary School. 26 schools nearby.
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