Chess Falls, Loudwater Lane, Loudwater, Rickmansworth, WD3 4HQ

Chess Falls is a three-bedroom detached house in Loudwater, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth (WD3 4HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 122 m² (around 1313 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 122 m² it's 28.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (95 m² median across 16 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £2,086,000 is 22.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,295/sq ft) was about 333.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 5 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £1,700,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.