5 Brambleside Court, Kettering, NN16 9BY

5 Brambleside Court is an end-of-terrace house in Kettering (NN16 9BY). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump.

Last sale on file: £150,000 in May 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. At 40 m² it's 24.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (53 m² median across 47 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 128.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.