12 High Street is a four-bedroom detached house in Bassingbourn, Royston, Royston (SG8 5NE). It has a recorded floor area of 191 m² (around 2058 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2011) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £719,000 is 29.5% above the 2012 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£270/sq ft) was about 17.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 191 m² it's 28.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (149 m² median across 15 EPCs). 14 years since the last transfer (October 2012).
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12 High Street'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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Apr 2021
12 High Street has a listed-building consent on record — alterations to a listed property are tightly controlled.
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Price for 12 High Street has grown more than fourfold since the 1996 starting point.
£719,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 9.0% per year over 16 years.
£555,000
Growth on file: 9.0% per year over 16 years.
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Habitable Rooms for 12 High Street runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,903
Street avg £3,110
Floor Area
191 m²
Street avg 151 m²
Habitable Rooms
9 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
2.7 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
44.6dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Discharge of condition 3 (Precise details of the proposed doors including vertical and horizontal cross-sections) pursuant to listed building consent S/1817/19/LB
Replacement and repair of fenestration and surrounds
16 October 2012Most recent
£555,000
+66.9%over 11 years28 April 2001
£332,500
+144.5%over 4 years1 July 1996
£136,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 5NE: £525,000 (2025–2021).

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 8.2 t/year
SG8 5FL
Tesco — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Bassingbourn Village College. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.5dB