22 Castle Street, Christchurch, BH23 1DT

22 Castle Street is a six-bedroom detached house in Christchurch (BH23 1DT). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include notable views, a self-contained annexe and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows a G (score 4), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (September 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (85 m² across 7 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. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,196,000 is 30% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,554/sq ft) was about 789.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £920,000 in November 2020.