1 Botany Close, Barnet, EN4 9RX

1 Botany Close is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Barnet (EN4 9RX). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band D. At 85 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across the building (35–85 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (49 versus a best of 82). The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 85 m² the property is well over the postcode median (46 m² across 32 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. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £491,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£537/sq ft) was about 95% above the typical sold price in the postcode.