22 High Street, Thurleigh, Bedford, MK44 2DS

22 High Street is a three-bedroom detached house in Thurleigh, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 2DS). It has a recorded floor area of 152 m² (around 1636 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 152 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 23 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £486,000 is 29.6% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£229/sq ft) was about 17.4% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £375,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.