13 Brookside is a three-bedroom detached house in Orwell, Royston, Royston (SG8 5TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1049 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2011) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 71). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £417,000 sits 54.4% above the 2012 sale of £270,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£257/sq ft) was about 23.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 98 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sold in September 2012, so it's been off the market for around 14 years. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property.
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13 Brookside's EPC is over a decade old — improvements since won't be reflected.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Nov 2021
13 Brookside has no planning applications on record.
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13 Brookside has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1995.
£417,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.4% per year over 17 years.
£270,000
Growth on file: 7.4% per year over 17 years.
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Floor Area for 13 Brookside runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,769
Street avg £3,567
Floor Area
98 m²
Street avg 81 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
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
25 September 2012Most recent
£270,000
+18.7%over 5 years24 May 2007
£227,500
+69.1%over 6 years20 October 2000
£134,500
+24.0%over 11 months26 November 1999
£108,500
+39.1%over 4 years28 April 1995
£78,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 5TQ: £400,000 (2025–2023).

Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.8 t/year
Street avg 4.3 t/year
SG8 5GR
Petersfield CofE Aided Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.9dB