SG17 5QY
Last sold £385,000 in March 2025
3, Birch Close, Shefford
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 4 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,087 sq ft / 101 sq m
- Plot area
- about 2,200 sq ft / 200 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
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Price history in context
- Mar 2025 — £385,000 · +60.5% · 44 pts behind the UK market
- Apr 2004 — £239,950 · +203.7% · 53 pts ahead of the UK market
- Jul 1995 — £79,000
What this home might be worth today
£388,000
Estimate range £369,000–£407,000
+0.8% since March 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 26 nearby sales within a year · 4-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Clifton All Saints Academy 700m
- Samuel Whitbread Academy 465m
- Arlesey station 3.3km
- Lower Alders 2.7km
- The coast (coastline) 39.9km
- Lake 1.3km
- Pond 438m
- River Ivel Navigation 814m
- River Flit 1.1km
- Bellcote Meadow 752m
- Play Area 464m
- Shefford Convenience Store 1.9km
- Knolls Way (Opp) 107m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Biggleswade, 6.5km away
- 35 min London
- 59 min Cambridge
- 107 min Brighton
- 117 min Nottingham
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
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1 Samuel Whitbread Academy · Secondary 0.3 miles State Attainment 8: 47.1 — top 40% nationally (2023)
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 63 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 8, Knolls Way, Shefford £345,000 · 2020
- 8, Birch Close, Shefford £360,000 · 2021
- 2, Birch Close, Shefford £230,000 · 2005
- 7, Knolls Way, Shefford £360,000 · 2020
- 2, Maple Close, Shefford £234,000 · 2006
- 6, Maple Close, Shefford £240,000 · 2009
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Detached garage and boundary wall Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Single storey rear extension, front canopy, and external alterations. Driveway redesign… Mar 2026 source
- Permitted Erection of a front porch Jan 2026 source
- Conditions Discharge of Condition 2 against planning permission ref. CB/23/03567/FULL (Erection of a… Nov 2025 source
- Permitted Detached garage Feb 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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