4 Springvale Cottages, Barton Road, Gravenhurst, Bedford, MK45 4JL

4 Springvale Cottages is a five-bedroom detached house in Gravenhurst, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4JL). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views.

At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (105 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2004. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£403/sq ft) was about 58.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £690,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.