1 Beech Rise, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9TJ

1 Beech Rise is a detached house in Sonning Common, Reading, Reading (RG4 9TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2013. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 90 m² it's 16.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (78 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £513,000 sits 53.6% above the 2013 sale of £334,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£345/sq ft) was about 17.5% below the postcode norm. Last changed hands 13 years ago, in August 2013. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2013.