The Hoops, Mill End, Sandon, Buntingford, SG9 0RN

The Hoops is a four-bedroom detached house in Sandon, Buntingford, Buntingford (SG9 0RN). It has a recorded floor area of 235 m² (around 2529 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2010) shows a G (score 18), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from January 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Held since May 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 235 m² the property is well over the postcode median (133 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £1,278,000 is 27.8% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£395/sq ft) was about 78.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.