4 The Strouds, Beenham, Reading, RG7 5NW

4 The Strouds is a four-bedroom detached house in Beenham, Reading, Reading (RG7 5NW). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2018) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in December 1997. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £732,000 sits 357.5% above the 1997 sale of £160,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£95/sq ft) was about 71.6% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.