3 Brook Lane, Galleywood, Chelmsford, CM2 8NJ

3 Brook Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Galleywood, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM2 8NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 722 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2009) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 57), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since December 1998, a hold of 28 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 67 m² it's 23.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £467,000 sits 324.5% above the 1998 sale of £110,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£152/sq ft) was about 43% below the postcode norm.