18a, Crabton Close Road, Bournemouth, BH5 1HL

18a is a four-bedroom detached house in Bournemouth (BH5 1HL). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 120 m² this is the 58th smallest of 62 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 31–239 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since October 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 61 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. Today's modelled estimate of £256,000 sits 55.2% above the 2009 sale of £165,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£128/sq ft) was about 25.1% below the postcode norm.