35 Recreation Road, Guildford, GU1 1HQ

35 Recreation Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Guildford (GU1 1HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 123 m² (around 1324 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 53), 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 July 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 £539,000 sits 880% above the 1996 sale of £55,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£42/sq ft) was about 87.8% below the postcode norm. At 123 m² it's 23% larger than the typical home in the postcode (100 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs).