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

4 Kennel Cottages is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Shendish, Hemel Hempstead, Hemel Hempstead (HP3 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£559/sq ft) was about 42.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £620,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.