12 Guise Lane is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Bassingbourn, Royston, Royston (SG8 5PJ). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 105), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£429/sq ft) was about 64% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 78 m² it sits well below the postcode median (135 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £359,995 in February 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
12 Guise Lane has no planning applications on record.
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12 Guise Lane has more than doubled in price since the earliest registered sale in 2002.
£374,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.6% per year over 19 years.
£359,995
Growth on file: 5.6% per year over 19 years.
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Price per m² for 12 Guise Lane runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,615
Street avg £3,072
Floor Area
78 m²
Street avg 119 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 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.
Closest school
1.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
41.6dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
25 February 2021Most recent
£359,995
+3.7%over 4 years30 September 2016
£347,000
+82.6%over 11 years10 June 2005
£189,995
+45.0%over 2 years26 July 2002
£131,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 5PJ: £380,000 (2024–2016).

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.4 t/year
Street avg 9.0 t/year
SG8 5XD
Bassingbourn Village College. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.4dB