4 Lower Northend, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7EZ

4 Lower Northend is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Batheaston, Bath, Bath (BA1 7EZ). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2019) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in January 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

Held since December 1996 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 73 m² it's 20.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £383,000 sits 666% above the 1996 sale of £50,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£64/sq ft) was about 78.3% below the postcode norm.