5 Carnarvon Road, Barnet, EN5 4LX

5 Carnarvon Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Barnet (EN5 4LX). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2017) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since August 1996 — that's 30 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 £682,000 sits 454.5% above the 1996 sale of £123,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£138/sq ft) was about 67.6% below the postcode norm. At 83 m² it sits well below the postcode median (131 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs).