3 Essex Road, Watford, WD17 4EL

3 Essex Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Watford (WD17 4EL). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

It hasn't traded since April 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2002–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 13.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £699,000 sits 81.6% above the 2007 sale of £385,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£282/sq ft) was about 15.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2019.