The Trees, North Parade, Frome, BA11 1AU

The Trees is a detached house in Frome (BA11 1AU). It has a recorded floor area of 260 m² (around 2799 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2020) returns a high B (score 89), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in August 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Poor to Very Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Very Good.

At 260 m² the property is well over the postcode median (49 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 2017–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 23.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£429/sq ft) was about 58.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Sold November 2022 for £1,200,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.