Canfield Park Cottage, Canfield Road, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6ST

Canfield Park Cottage is a detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6ST). It has a recorded floor area of 299 m² (around 3218 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in April 2011 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 299 m² the property is well over the postcode median (167 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2012–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,281,000 is 22% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£326/sq ft) was about 37% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £1,050,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.