4 Chestnut Grove, Purley On Thames, Reading, RG8 8BU

4 Chestnut Grove is a four-bedroom detached house in Purley On Thames, Reading, Reading (RG8 8BU). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 121 m² it's 21.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (155 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1997–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £473,000 is 42.3% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£255/sq ft) was about 30.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 11 years ago, in March 2015.