5 Bedford Avenue, Silsoe, Bedford, MK45 4ER

5 Bedford Avenue is a three-bedroom detached house in Silsoe, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4ER). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 84% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£429/sq ft) was about 98.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2022 for £795,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.