Kirkstile Barn, Pipers Hill, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 3BY

Kirkstile Barn is a detached house in Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Hemel Hempstead (HP1 3BY). It has a recorded floor area of 230 m² (around 2476 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1983-1990. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Today's modelled estimate of £864,000 is 19.5% below the 2021 sale of £1,073,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£433/sq ft) was about 16% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 230 m² the property is well over the postcode median (169 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold January 2021 for £1,073,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.