5 Temple Close, Huntingdon, PE29 3QX

5 Temple Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Huntingdon (PE29 3QX). It has a recorded floor area of 157 m² (around 1690 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2012) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 157 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 23 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 74% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£229/sq ft) was about 34.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £387,500 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.