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Get started62 Ampthill Road is a semi-detached house in Shefford (SG17 5BB). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 12.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£506/sq ft) was about 104.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 87 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 84% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold April 2022 for £473,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
62 Ampthill Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A partial demolition application was refused at 62 Ampthill Road in 2024.
Erection of a 1.5 storey, 1 one bedroom dwelling with parking and garden. Demolition of existing garage.
62 Ampthill Road saw 3 transfers in just over a decade — high turnover for the postcode.
£489,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 12.5% per year over 5 years.
£473,500
Growth on file: 12.5% per year over 5 years.
Price per m² for 62 Ampthill Road runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£5,443
Street avg £3,119
Floor Area
87 m²
Street avg 95 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
School Lane — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.5dB

Erection of 1 bedroom bungalow and associated works.
2 more applications for this property
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27 April 2022Most recent
£473,500
+22.2%over 4 years27 September 2017
£387,500
+55.0%over 10 months21 November 2016
£250,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG17 5BB: £241,000 (2024–2021).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.8 t/year
Street avg 4.4 t/year
SG17 5ZL
Closest school
0.2 km
Shefford Lower School. 6 schools nearby.
Flood risk
Low
From the Environment Agency.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
44.4dB
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