Barncroft, Sawbridgeworth Road, Little Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 7QU

Barncroft is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 7QU). It has a recorded floor area of 82 m² (around 883 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.

At 82 m² it's 29.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (116 m² median across 9 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2019–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 24.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £851,000 is 25.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£770/sq ft) was about 171.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £680,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.