8 Belton Grove, Grantham, NG31 9HH

8 Belton Grove is a five-bedroom detached house in Grantham (NG31 9HH). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2014); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

Held since October 1998 — that's 28 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. At 61 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 39 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £446,000 sits 264.1% above the 1998 sale of £122,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£187/sq ft) was about 29.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.