The Laurels, Hobbs Wall, Farmborough, Bath, BA2 0BJ

The Laurels is a detached house in Farmborough, Bath, Bath (BA2 0BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 95), a 4-band jump.

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £672,000 is 13.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£320/sq ft) was about 55.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £592,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.