10 Brookside is a three-bedroom detached house in Orwell, Royston, Royston (SG8 5TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2012) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £380,000 is 13.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£389/sq ft) was about 97.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 80 m² it's 27% larger than the typical home in the postcode (63 m² median across 31 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £335,000. 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.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 27 Nov 2022
10 Brookside has no planning applications on record.
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£380,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.0% per year over 7 years.
£335,000
Growth on file: 4.0% per year over 7 years.
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On co₂ emissions, 10 Brookside runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,188
Street avg £3,511
Floor Area
80 m²
Street avg 81 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 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
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.2dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
7 May 2021Most recent
£335,000
+34.0%over 7 years3 December 2013
£250,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 5TQ: £400,000 (2025–2023).

CO₂ Emissions
5.4 t/year
Street avg 4.3 t/year
SG8 5PT
Petersfield CofE Aided Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.9dB