55 Cumberland Avenue, Basingstoke, RG22 4BQ

55 Cumberland Avenue is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Basingstoke (RG22 4BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2022) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in November 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 94). Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 34 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £535,000 sits 114% above the 2014 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£149/sq ft) was about 41.5% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2014. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in February 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years.