The Stocks, Station Road, Elsenham, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6LA

The Stocks is a four-bedroom detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6LA). It has a recorded floor area of 169 m² (around 1819 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 169 m² it sits well below the postcode median (246 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £723,000 is 21.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£328/sq ft) was about 35.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £597,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.