13 The Hawthorns, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, WD3 9UH

13 The Hawthorns is a three-bedroom detached house in Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth (WD3 9UH). It has a recorded floor area of 157 m² (around 1690 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in September 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 157 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: a garage conversion approved in 2019. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2016–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£444/sq ft) was about 38.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £750,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.