Hillview, Old Mead Road, Henham, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6JQ

Hillview is a four-bedroom detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2014. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 172 m² it's 25.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (137 m² median across 11 EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£427/sq ft) was about 43% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £790,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.