21 Highfield Rise, Althorne, Chelmsford, CM3 6DN

21 Highfield Rise is a detached house in Althorne, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 6DN). It has a recorded floor area of 115 m² (around 1238 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2025) shows a G (score 20), 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 to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

Held since July 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 115 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £378,000 sits 481.5% above the 1995 sale of £65,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 80.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.