5 Beechwood Cottages, Heronsgate Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, WD3 5BW

5 Beechwood Cottages is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth (WD3 5BW). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2025) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in April 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78).

At 129 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2011–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £695,000 is 31.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£382/sq ft) was about 42.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £530,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.