7 Blandford Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 4FB

7 Blandford Road is a detached house in Shepton Mallet (BA4 4FB). It has a recorded floor area of 19 m² (around 205 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. At 19 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (19–111 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (46 versus a best of 81). The latest certificate (May 2020) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 0.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £159,000 is 13.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£685/sq ft) was about 230.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 19 m² it sits well below the postcode median (78 m² across 21 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold May 2021 for £140,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.