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Get startedSomerlea House is a nine-bedroom detached house in Langford, Bristol, Bristol (BS40 5HU). It has a recorded floor area of 549 m² (around 5909 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 60), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 549 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 20 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. 9 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,904,000 sits 68.5% above the 2019 sale of £1,130,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£191/sq ft) was about 20.9% below the postcode norm. 7 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold September 2019 for £1,130,000.
Somerlea House sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 22 Oct 2024
Somerlea House has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
G1 - Mixed species hedge line - reduce height to 10 feet from the ground. T1 & T2 - Cherry plum - poor specimens - Fell. T3 - Ash - Ash dieback disease - Pollard to 10 feet from the ground. T4 - Accacia - Growing into TPO'd cedar - Fell. T5 - Ash - growing against wall - fell. T6 - Magnolia - remove deadwood and reduce remaining branches to lower crown, approx 2.5 meters.
Somerlea House valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£1,904,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£1,130,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
EPC Rating for Somerlea House lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,058
Street avg £3,555
Floor Area
549 m²
Street avg 167 m²
Habitable Rooms
14 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.5dB

T1 Yew - reduce top height by 2m and the lateral spread by 1 - 2m
5 more applications for this property
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18 September 2019Most recent
£1,130,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in BS40 5HU: £398,000 (2025–2021).
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Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
41.0 t/year
Street avg 8.1 t/year
Blackmoor — bus stop.
Closest school
1.0 km
Churchill Church of England Primary School. 4 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.1dB
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