5 The Birches, Ampthill Road, Flitwick, Bedford, MK45 1BA

5 The Birches is a four-bedroom detached house in Flitwick, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 1BA). It has a recorded floor area of 155 m² (around 1668 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 77), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86). The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (61 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £583,000 is 16.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£300/sq ft) was about 15.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £499,995. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.