5 Church Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 7AA

5 Church Road is a detached house in Caversham, Reading, Reading (RG4 7AA). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows a C (score 71). When first surveyed in January 2017 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good. At 48 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 15 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 40–116 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 15 units on file.

8 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 4 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (91 m² across 14 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£387/sq ft) was about 27.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £200,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.