Are you a property professional?Get qualified leads from motivated homeowners.
Get started5a, Orchard Road, Baldock, SG7 5AG
1 planning record
About 5a
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
5a is a detached house in Baldock (SG7 5AG). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.
At 90 m² the property is well over the postcode median (66 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£547/sq ft) was about 100.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £530,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E51
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Poor
CO2 Emissions
5.9 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against 5a, Orchard Road, Baldock, SG7 5AG, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
- Dec 2022ExtensionFullGranted
Extension: Single storey · Side and rear of property
Single storey side and rear extension, widen existing dropped kerb and addition of extra parking space following demolition of existing detached garage and outbuildings.
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£554,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
Last sold (2022)
£530,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
Versus other Orchard Road homes
Four headline reads against 17 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
5a outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£5,889
Street avg £4,095
Floor Area
90 m²
Street avg 86 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Baldock district page.
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Baldock Railway Station — bus stop.
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around SG7 5AG from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.4dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 41 points of interest in total.
Beautiful places to visit nearby
Curated scenic spots within reach of this postcode, served by Beautifulplaces.ai. Photography and tagging come from their open dataset.
Common questions
The questions buyers, sellers and homeowners most often ask about 5a, Orchard Road, Baldock, SG7 5AG. Each answer is also embedded as structured data for search engines.