14 Hydes Platt, Silchester, Reading, RG7 2PU

14 Hydes Platt is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Silchester, Reading, Reading (RG7 2PU). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1231 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2011) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). The latest certificate is from January 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (66 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Across 2000–2005, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £416,000 sits 77% above the 2005 sale of £235,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£191/sq ft) was about 38.3% below the postcode norm.