SG5 1QN
Last sold £705,000 in January 2025
34, Convent Close, Hitchin
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 6 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,195 sq ft / 111 sq m
- Plot area
- shared grounds ≈ 3,200 sq ft / 300 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
- Elevation
- About 62m
This home isn't on the market right now
Leave your email and we'll tell you if it comes back on.
Want to know if this comes up again?
We'll email you if this home comes back on the market — or if something like it comes up near here. Nothing else, and we stop after two years.
We'll send one email to confirm it's you. If an agent on rielty lists it, they'll be told you were waiting. How we handle your details.
Price history in context
- Jan 2025 — £705,000
What this home might be worth today
£719,000
Estimate range £683,000–£755,000
+2.0% since January 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 37 nearby sales within a year · 6-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School 20-min walk crosses a major road
- St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin 8-min walk
- Hitchin station 11-min walk
- Woodland 3.9km
- The coast (coastline) 46.8km
- Blue Lagoon 4.6km
- River Hiz 504m
- River Ivel Navigation 10.5km
- River Hiz 111m
- Pinehill Park 626m
- Bancroft Recreation Ground 109m
- Shop 160m
- Convent Close (Nr) 40m
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 Hitchin, 586m away
- 28 min London
- 35 min Cambridge
- 97 min Oxford
- 106 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
-
1 St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Hitchin · Primary · Church of England 0.3 miles State
-
2 Hitchin Girls' School · Secondary · Girls 0.3 miles State Attainment 8: 57.8 — top 20% nationally (2023)
-
3 Hitchin Boys' School · Secondary · Boys 0.3 miles State Attainment 8: 56.3 — top 20% nationally (2023)
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,590 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 4% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 278 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 36, Convent Close, Hitchin £545,000 · 2019
- 32, Convent Close, Hitchin £725,000 · 2020
- 31, Convent Close, Hitchin £810,000 · 2022
- 35, Verulam Road, Hitchin £725,000 · 2016
- 35a, Verulam Road, Hitchin £650,000 · 2024
- 1, Convent Close, Hitchin £510,000 · 2019
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Details reserved by condition 15 (External Lighting) of planning permission reference… Dec 2025 source
- Undecided T1: Holm Oak - Repollard approx. 1m further back from the previous pruning points. Jun 2026 source
- Undecided Details reserved by condition 9 (Contamination Report) of planning permission reference… Nov 2025 source
- Permitted Details reserved by condition 18 (Noise Report) of planning permission reference… May 2026 source
- Conditions Variation of condition 2 (revised plans) of planning permission 24/01754/FP granted… Jun 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
Want to know if this comes up again?
We'll email you if this home comes back on the market — or if something like it comes up near here. Nothing else, and we stop after two years.
We'll send one email to confirm it's you. If an agent on rielty lists it, they'll be told you were waiting. How we handle your details.