35 Church Street is a five-bedroom detached house in Thriplow, Royston, Royston (SG8 7RE). It has a recorded floor area of 283 m² (around 3046 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,362,000 is 10.2% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£406/sq ft) was about 30% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 283 m² the property is well over the postcode median (162 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 11 planning records sit against the property, 10 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. 11 years since the last transfer (August 2015).
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35 Church 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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 20 Apr 2025
35 Church Street has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
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Sale price has at least doubled since 2004.
£1,362,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.9% per year over 11 years.
£1,236,006
Growth on file: 6.9% per year over 11 years.
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35 Church Street outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,368
Street avg £4,371
Floor Area
283 m²
Street avg 186 m²
Habitable Rooms
10 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
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.8dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Hawthorn - Fell Beech - Reduce height and spread on all sides by 1 - 1.5m back to previous pruning points. Thin lower canopy by approximately 20% on house side.
5 cherry - crown reduce back to previous pruning points by 1-1.5m Pear - crown reduce back to previous pruning points by 2m Largest Plum - crown reduce back to previous pruning points 2m Birch - shorten longest limb on north side by 2.5-3m to reduce risk of failure
5 August 2015Most recent
£1,236,006
+107.7%over 11 years26 July 2004
£595,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 7RE: £935,000 (2024–2019).

Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
13.0 t/year
Street avg 9.2 t/year
SG8 7XP
Thriplow CofE Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.9dB