1 Rectory Hill, Cranford, Kettering, NN14 4AH

1 Rectory Hill is a detached house in Cranford, Kettering, Kettering (NN14 4AH). It has a recorded floor area of 575 m² (around 6189 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Across 2021–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,945,000 is 17.5% below the 2022 sale of £2,358,137, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£381/sq ft) was about 89.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 575 m² the property is well over the postcode median (163 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £2,358,137. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.