Little Orchard, Redhall Lane, Chandlers Cross, Rickmansworth, WD3 4LS

Little Orchard is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Chandlers Cross, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth (WD3 4LS). It has a recorded floor area of 254 m² (around 2734 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since August 1996 — that's 30 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 £1,535,000 sits 410% above the 1996 sale of £301,000. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.