16 Ellwood Gardens, Watford, WD25 0DR

16 Ellwood Gardens is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Watford (WD25 0DR). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 95 m² it's 22.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (122 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2014–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 is 20.4% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£494/sq ft) was about 42.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 8 years ago, in January 2018.