48 North Road, St Andrews, Bristol, BS6 5AF

48 North Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in St. Andrews, Bristol, Bristol (BS6 5AF). It has a recorded floor area of 20 m² (around 215 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. At 20 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (20–208 m²). The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (33 versus a best of 72). The latest certificate (December 2023) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2015); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

Held since April 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 20 m² it sits well below the postcode median (124 m² across 13 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. 3 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £313,000 sits 360.3% above the 1998 sale of £68,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£316/sq ft) was about 67.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.