Shambles Barn, Melchbourne Park, Melchbourne, Bedford, MK44 1BD

Shambles Barn is a four-bedroom detached house in Melchbourne, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 1BD). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2008. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £799,000 is 15% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£371/sq ft) was about 154.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 174 m² it's 21.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (221 m² median across 9 EPCs). Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £695,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.