32 Cavendish Gardens, Chelmsford, CM2 6BB

32 Cavendish Gardens is a two-bedroom detached house in Chelmsford (CM2 6BB). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 50 m² this is the 26th smallest of 49 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 34–73 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 67). Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced Chelmsford HPI: 6.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 96.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold September 2022 for £227,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.