Woodside Farm, Stapleford Road, Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, RM4 1ER

Woodside Farm is a detached house in Stapleford Abbotts, Romford, Romford (RM4 1ER). It has a recorded floor area of 150 m² (around 1615 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

Today's modelled estimate of £697,000 is 69.7% below the 2022 sale of £2,300,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,425/sq ft) was about 274.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 150 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 20 planning records sit against the property, 11 approved, 4 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £2,300,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.