42 Grange Road, Elstree, Borehamwood, WD6 3LY

42 Grange Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Elstree, Borehamwood, Borehamwood (WD6 3LY). It has a recorded floor area of 109 m² (around 1173 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 109 m² it sits well below the postcode median (178 m² across 22 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). 6 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2021–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -14.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£828/sq ft) was about 110.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £972,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.