5 Halfpenny Close, Chilworth, Guildford, GU4 8NJ

5 Halfpenny Close is a two-bedroom detached house in Chilworth, Guildford, Guildford (GU4 8NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 73 m² it's 23.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (95 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £685,000 is 18.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£733/sq ft) was about 112.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £576,000 in April 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.