3 Brookside, Houghton, Huntingdon, PE28 2BT

3 Brookside is a five-bedroom detached house in Houghton, Huntingdon, Huntingdon (PE28 2BT). It has a recorded floor area of 143 m² (around 1539 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 143 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 19 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£284/sq ft) was about 48.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £437,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.