4 Sacombe Pound, Sacombe, Ware, SG12 0JW

4 Sacombe Pound is a four-bedroom detached house in Sacombe, Ware, Ware (SG12 0JW). It has a recorded floor area of 180 m² (around 1938 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since October 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 180 m² the property is well over the postcode median (77 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£547/sq ft) was about 176.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £1,060,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.