7a, Gillespie Road, Islington, London, N5 1LH

7a is a two-bedroom detached house in Islington, London, London (N5 1LH). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£965/sq ft) was about 85.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2022 for £1,215,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.