24a, Maldon Road, Danbury, Chelmsford, CM3 4QH

24a is a detached house in Danbury, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 4QH). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 51), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £434,000 is 22.5% below the 2021 sale of £560,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£642/sq ft) was about 185.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 81 m² it's 27.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (112 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £560,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.