1 Ashtree Road, Frome, BA11 2SE

1 Ashtree Road is a one-bedroom detached house in Frome (BA11 2SE). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (58 m² across 35 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £219,000 is 28.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£427/sq ft) was about 179% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £170,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.