159 High Road, Cotton End, Bedford, MK45 3BA

159 High Road is a detached house in Cotton End, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 3BA). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).

At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2026. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £557,000 is 14.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£341/sq ft) was about 53.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2021 for £485,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.