8 Bourne End Cottages, London Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 2RH

8 Bourne End Cottages is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Hemel Hempstead (HP1 2RH). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2022) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 4-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. An active application for new windows is awaiting a decision. At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (145 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: February 2023 at £400,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1998–2023, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£676/sq ft) was about 88.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.