1 The Maltings, Bath Street, Frome, BA11 1DW

1 The Maltings is a semi-detached house in Frome (BA11 1DW). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 63), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 79 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 7 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 47–124 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (31 versus a best of 77).

Held since January 1997 — 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 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (113 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £210,000 sits 1100% above the 1997 sale of £17,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£21/sq ft) was about 89.4% below the postcode norm.