7 Botany Close, Barnet, EN4 9RX

7 Botany Close is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Barnet (EN4 9RX). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. At 37 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 33 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 35–85 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 33 units on file. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1999 — that's 27 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. Today's modelled estimate of £262,000 sits 285.3% above the 1999 sale of £68,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£171/sq ft) was about 38.3% below the postcode norm. At 37 m² it's 20.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (47 m² median across 32 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 72% of similar EPCs).