43 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
About 43 Kennylands Road
43 Kennylands Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Sonning Common, Reading, Reading (RG4 9JR). It has a recorded floor area of 216 m² (around 2325 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82). Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.
Untraded for 30 years, with the last transfer in May 1996. 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 £956,000 sits 475.9% above the 1996 sale of £166,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£71/sq ft) was about 77.2% below the postcode norm. At 216 m² it's 24.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (174 m² median across 27 EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2008.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms4
- Dining roomYes
- EnsuiteYes
Outside
- LandYes
Building
- Period featuresYes
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
EPC Rating
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Planning history
1 application on record at 43 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
- Jan 2008ExtensionOutcome in report
Two storey extension and detached double garage. (As amended by plan No. IRJG-SW-015 Rev B and accompanying Agent's letter received on 2 January 2008).
- Documents
- 13 docs on file
- Reference
- P07/E1484
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Sales history & valuation
43 Kennylands Road's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1996).
£956,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£166,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
23 May 1996Most recent
£166,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG4 9JR: £770,000 (2025–2024).
Nearby sales in RG4 9JR
17 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
Sold Aug 2025
£880,0001 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
Sold Jan 2025
£770,00089 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
Sold Aug 2024
£412,50083 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
Sold Mar 2024
£349,95045 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR
Sold Feb 2024
£950,000
Versus other Kennylands Road homes
On price per m², 43 Kennylands Road runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£769
Street avg £3,927
Floor Area
216 m²
Street avg 170 m²
Habitable Rooms
10 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.5 t/year
Street avg 5.3 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.0 km
Westleigh Drive — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Sonning Common Primary School. 4 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.5dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.3dB







