3 Chapel Lodge is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Finchampstead, Wokingham, Wokingham (RG40 4JB). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a conservatory and outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced Wokingham HPI: 5.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 122.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (171 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £250,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.
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3 Chapel Lodge sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Planning history at 3 Chapel Lodge is exclusively tree-management applications — typical for a property with mature trees on or near the plot.
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3 Chapel Lodge has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1997.
£258,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.4% per year over 25 years.
£250,000
Growth on file: 5.4% per year over 25 years.
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On epc rating, 3 Chapel Lodge runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,000
Street avg £4,095
Floor Area
50 m²
Street avg 142 m²
Habitable Rooms
2 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
6/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.0 km

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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
APPLICATION FOR WORKS TO PROTECTED TREE TPO-0221/1983 (G4). T1 (Oak) - cut back lower hanging branches encroaching 2 Chapel Lodge front path; reduce the crown by 2 metres to higher branches to provide sufficient clearance to roof of property to 3&4 Chapel Lodge.
APPLICATION FOR WORKS TO PROTECTED TREE(S) TPO 221/1983, GROUP 4 T1, Oak - Cut back 2 no. branches overhanging the front garden of no. 4 Chapel Lodge as indicated in submitted photograph.
5 August 2022Most recent
£250,000
+8.0%over 1 year16 June 2021
£231,500
-8.5%over 3 years4 October 2017
£253,000
+272.1%over 20 years1 September 1997
£68,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG40 4JB: £785,000 (2024–2020).
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Sold Jun 2022
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Sold Jun 2022
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Sold Jul 2020

CO₂ Emissions
5.2 t/year
Street avg 5.6 t/year
RG40 4EG
California Crossroads Petrol Station — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Gorse Ride Infants' School. 7 schools nearby.
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