17 Station Road, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7RB

17 Station Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Oakley, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 7RB). It has a recorded floor area of 203 m² (around 2185 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2014) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 203 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Sold February 2022 for £610,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£279/sq ft) was about 34.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.