15 Birch Gardens, Hilperton, Trowbridge, BA14 7TW

15 Birch Gardens is a four-bedroom detached house in Hilperton, Trowbridge, Trowbridge (BA14 7TW). It has a recorded floor area of 157 m² (around 1690 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (December 2013); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 157 m² it's 18.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (132 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold July 2018 for £375,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 2000–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £474,000 is 26.4% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£222/sq ft) was about 34.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.