18 Dene Close, Wellingborough, NN8 5QP

18 Dene Close is a detached house in Wellingborough (NN8 5QP). It has a recorded floor area of 187 m² (around 2013 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in November 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 187 m² the property is well over the postcode median (120 m² across 13 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. Today's modelled estimate of £460,000 sits 441.2% above the 1997 sale of £84,995. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£42/sq ft) was about 73.3% below the postcode norm.