Sydney House, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB

Sydney House is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Frome (BA11 1EB). It has a recorded floor area of 281 m² (around 3025 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (June 2012) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 281 m² the property is well over the postcode median (39 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 6 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £905,000 in April 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£299/sq ft) was about 34.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.