Shortgrove Manor Farm, Dovehouse Lane, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 2PQ

Shortgrove Manor Farm is a detached house in Kensworth, Dunstable, Dunstable (LU6 2PQ). It has a recorded floor area of 24 m² (around 258 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £2,774,000 is 20.2% below the 2021 sale of £3,475,000, an unusual pattern given regional price growth and worth checking against the EPC condition. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£13,452/sq ft) was about 3778% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 24 m² it sits well below the postcode median (99 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). Sold December 2021 for £3,475,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.