8 Blacksmith Close, Springfield, Chelmsford, CM1 6SY

8 Blacksmith Close is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Springfield, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM1 6SY). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 51 m² it's 16.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (61 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last changed hands 11 years ago, in December 2015. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1997–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £299,000 is 30% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£419/sq ft) was about 42.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.