14 Ashcroft Close, Northampton, NN5 6SS

14 Ashcroft Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Northampton (NN5 6SS). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2020) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in May 2010 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 93).

Last sale on file: £239,995 in September 2020. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 96 m² it's 20% larger than the typical home in the postcode (80 m² median across 5 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 1997–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £284,000 is 18.3% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£232/sq ft) was about 20.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.