8 Craven Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 6LW

8 Craven Road is a semi-detached house in Kingston Upon Thames (KT2 6LW). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1997 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £697,000 sits 483.5% above the 1997 sale of £119,450. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£128/sq ft) was about 64.4% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 87 m² it's 17.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 23 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs).