165 The Butts, Frome, BA11 4AQ

165 The Butts is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Frome (BA11 4AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (September 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78).

At 136 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £426,000 is 16.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£249/sq ft) was about 92.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £365,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.