Yew Tree House, Old Mead Road, Henham, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6JQ

Yew Tree House is a four-bedroom detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 153 m² (around 1647 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2021. The latest certificate (August 2021) returns a high B (score 86), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in October 2020 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Very Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 106). Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. One planning record on file: partial demolition approved in 2019. Past consents include partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£440/sq ft) was about 48.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £725,000 in April 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.