Kennet House, Flat 1, 80 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 3BJ

Kennet House is a one-bedroom detached house in Reading (RG1 3BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2012-2021. At 69 m² this is the 58th smallest of 78 units on EPC record in Kennet House, where floor areas span 32–88 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (63 versus a best of 85). Other recorded features include a balcony and notable views. The latest certificate (July 2025) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (April 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 69 m² the property is well over the postcode median (51 m² across 82 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. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £265,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.