Second Floor Flat, 14 Caroline Buildings, Bath, BA2 4JH

Second Floor Flat is a mid-terrace house in Bath (BA2 4JH). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (October 2019) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 7 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, main heating went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (68 m² across 25 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold August 2021 for £210,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 78.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.