5 Essex Road, Watford, WD17 4EL

5 Essex Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Watford (WD17 4EL). It has a recorded floor area of 125 m² (around 1345 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2017) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 125 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. 8 years since the last transfer (May 2018). Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1999–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£476/sq ft) was about 94.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.