12 Ashby Drive, Barton Le Clay, Bedford, MK45 4SA

12 Ashby Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Barton-Le-Clay, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4SA). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Held since September 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £570,000 sits 509.6% above the 1996 sale of £93,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 61.7% below the postcode norm. At 146 m² it's 18.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (123 m² median across 15 EPCs).