26 Elgin Drive, Swindon, SN2 8DN
About 26 Elgin Drive
26 Elgin Drive is a semi-detached house in Swindon (SN2 8DN). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. 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 79% of similar EPCs). Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£330/sq ft) was about 109.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £295,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Energy performance
26 Elgin Drive's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Expired
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Planning history
26 Elgin Drive has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
1 application on record at 26 Elgin Drive, Swindon, SN2 8DN
- Mar 2016ExtensionOutlineOutcome in report
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Certificate of Lawful Development (Proposed) for the erection of a single storey rear extension.
- Documents
- 11 docs on file
- Reference
- S/LDP/16/0313
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 26 Elgin Drive was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£289,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 12.3% per year over 6 years.
£295,000
Growth on file: 12.3% per year over 6 years.
Sales timeline
25 May 2022Most recent
£295,000
+25.0%over 4 years5 October 2017
£236,000
+68.6%over 1 year16 December 2015
£140,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SN2 8DN: £268,000 (2025–2023).
Versus other Elgin Drive homes
26 Elgin Drive outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,554
Street avg £2,398
Floor Area
83 m²
Street avg 83 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.4 t/year
Street avg 3.7 t/year
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Crime
8/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Gipsy Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Gorse Hill Primary School. 38 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
51.6dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.4dB