Fern Lodge, 13, Beach Road, Weston Super Mare, BS23 1BT

Fern Lodge is a three-bedroom detached house in Weston Super Mare (BS23 1BT). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. At 97 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across Fern Lodge (59–97 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. Other recorded features include a balcony. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2015 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 97 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£335/sq ft) was about 104.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £350,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.