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Get started1 Bedford Terrace is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Long Bredy, Dorchester, Dorchester (DT2 9HW). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (December 2022) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£469/sq ft) was about 62.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 7 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold October 2022 for £867,888. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
1 Bedford Terrace's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Council records include a two-storey extension at 1 Bedford Terrace.
T1 Willow - Reduce by up to 3m overall & crown thin by up to 20% T2 Pittosporum - Reduce extended lateral limbs growing over garage roof by up to 2m T3 Beech - 10 - 15% thin T4 Beech - 10 - 15% thin, reduce extended lateral limbs growing over fruit trees by 2 - 3m T5 Apple - Fell T6 Hazel - Coppice T7 Horse Chestnut - Fell T8 Silver Birch - Fell T9 Bay - Reduce overall by 2m H1Conifer, Sycamore, Elm & Chestnut - Reduce back to previous pruning points
Latest sale on 1 Bedford Terrace was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£892,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.0% per year over 17 years.
£867,888
Growth on file: 6.0% per year over 17 years.
Price per m² for 1 Bedford Terrace runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,046
Street avg £3,351
Floor Area
172 m²
Street avg 82 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.3dB

Birch (T1) - Reduce height by 4m and reduce laterals by up to 2m Cherry (T2) - Reduce height by 4m and reduce laterals by up to 2m
5 more applications for this property
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27 October 2022Most recent
£867,888
+169.9%over 17 years27 September 2005
£321,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in DT2 9HW: £535,000 (2022–2021).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.6 t/year
Street avg 6.4 t/year
DT2 9RA
The Telephone Box — bus stop.
Closest school
1.8 km
Thorner's Church of England School, Litton Cheney. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.5dB
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