5 Totnes Road, Welling, DA16 1BU

5 Totnes Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Welling (DA16 1BU). It has a recorded floor area of 135 m² (around 1453 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (September 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

At 135 m² the property is well over the postcode median (91 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £639,000 is 20.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£365/sq ft) was about 37.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £530,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.