26 Windmill Road, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1AU

26 Windmill Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Flitwick, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 1AU). It has a recorded floor area of 171 m² (around 1841 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 171 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 40 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£318/sq ft) was about 50.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £585,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.