21 Church Close, Lelant, St Ives, TR26 3JX

21 Church Close is a one-bedroom detached house in Lelant, St. Ives, St Ives (TR26 3JX). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Held since June 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £312,000 sits 310.5% above the 2000 sale of £76,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£116/sq ft) was about 56% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 61 m² it sits well below the postcode median (122 m² across 14 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.