The Old Post Office, Station Road, Wanstrow, Shepton Mallet, BA4 4SY

The Old Post Office is an end-of-terrace house in Wanstrow, Shepton Mallet, Shepton Mallet (BA4 4SY). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since August 2011. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 65), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £283,000 is 15.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£221/sq ft) was about 43.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 103 m² the property is well over the postcode median (79 m² across 9 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, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £245,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.