16 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
About 16 Common Road
16 Common Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Kensworth, Dunstable, Dunstable (LU6 3RG). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a conservatory and a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.
Held since September 1995 — that's 31 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. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £471,000 sits 262.3% above the 1995 sale of £130,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£112/sq ft) was about 56.9% below the postcode norm.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms2
- Dining roomYes
- Utility roomYes
- CloakroomYes
- BasementYes
- ConservatoryYes
- FireplaceYes
Building
- Period featuresYes
Energy performance
16 Common Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
Planning history
16 Common Road has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
7applications of note in the surrounding area
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Sales history & valuation
16 Common Road's estimated value is more than triple its earliest registered sale price (1995).
£471,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£130,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
20 September 1995Most recent
£130,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in LU6 3RG: £630,000 (2025–2021).
Nearby sales in LU6 3RG
130 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
Sold Aug 2025
£375,0008 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
Sold Jan 2025
£630,000144 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
Sold Oct 2024
£400,00032 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
Sold Nov 2022
£875,0002 Common Road, Kensworth, Dunstable, LU6 3RG
Sold Apr 2021
£825,000
Versus other Common Road homes
16 Common Road outperforms the street on years held by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£1,204
Street avg £3,658
Floor Area
108 m²
Street avg 121 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
13.0 t/year
Street avg 5.5 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Ridgeway — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Kensworth Church of England Academy. 5 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.7dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
37.1dB







