3 Church Close, Great Elm, Frome, BA11 3NY

3 Church Close is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Great Elm, Frome, Frome (BA11 3NY). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since November 2008. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 92 m² it sits well below the postcode median (156 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). Across 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£369/sq ft) was about 40.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £365,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.