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Get started5 Martineau Lane is a detached house in Hurst, Reading, Reading (RG10 0SF). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump.
Untraded for 31 years, with the last transfer in January 1995. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £456,000 sits 385.1% above the 1995 sale of £94,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£143/sq ft) was about 55.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 61 m² it's 28.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (85 m² median across 29 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
5 Martineau Lane has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
5 Martineau Lane's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1995).
£456,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£94,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
On price per m², 5 Martineau Lane runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,541
Street avg £5,269
Floor Area
61 m²
Street avg 95 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.5dB

Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Proposed single storey rear extension to dwelling to form conservatory.
31 January 1995Most recent
£94,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG10 0SF: £780,000 (2025–2022).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
3.0 t/year
Street avg 3.7 t/year
RG10 0XL
School Road South — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
St Nicholas Church of England Primary, Hurst. 10 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
41.8dB
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