3 Kennel Cottages, Shendish, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 0AB

3 Kennel Cottages is a four-bedroom detached house in Shendish, Hemel Hempstead, Hemel Hempstead (HP3 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 28 m² (around 301 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows a C (score 70). When first surveyed in June 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 102), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 28 m² it sits well below the postcode median (117 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 86% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: a garage conversion approved in 2017. Past consents include a garage conversion and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £876,000 is 20.8% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£2,406/sq ft) was about 527% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (January 2016).