9 Church Street is a two-bedroom detached house in Thriplow, Royston, Royston (SG8 7RE). It has a recorded floor area of 57 m² (around 614 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record.
At 57 m² it sits well below the postcode median (166 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £329,000 is 21% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£443/sq ft) was about 43.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2020 at £272,000.
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9 Church Street sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
9 Church Street has no planning applications on record.
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£329,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£272,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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Floor Area for 9 Church Street lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,772
Street avg £4,344
Floor Area
57 m²
Street avg 196 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 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
6 March 2020Most recent
£272,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 7RE: £935,000 (2024–2019).

Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
8.4 t/year
Street avg 9.4 t/year
SG8 7DS
Thriplow CofE Primary School. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.9dB