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Get started11 Gainsford Crescent is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hitchin (SG4 0QG). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£553/sq ft) was about 106% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £571,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
11 Gainsford Crescent's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 03 Sept 2025
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£520,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 8.5% per year over 7 years.
£571,000
Growth on file: 8.5% per year over 7 years.
On price per m², 11 Gainsford Crescent stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£5,948
Street avg £3,892
Floor Area
96 m²
Street avg 102 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.0dB

14 October 2022Most recent
£571,000
+74.1%over 6 years21 December 2015
£328,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG4 0QG: £546,000 (2025–2020).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.1 t/year
Street avg 4.9 t/year
SG4 0QP
Queenswood Drive — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School. 23 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.0dB
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