45 Orchard Crescent, Chippenham, SN14 0BG

45 Orchard Crescent is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Chippenham (SN14 0BG). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£335/sq ft) was about 59.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £325,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.