14 Ken Road, Bournemouth, BH6 3ET

14 Ken Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Bournemouth (BH6 3ET). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. At 74 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (74–161 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£427/sq ft) was about 37.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 74 m² it sits well below the postcode median (142 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £340,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.