23 Church Street, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1DB

23 Church Street is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Sturminster Newton (DT10 1DB). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 453 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (92 m² across 15 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. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. On the market in August 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1996–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £160,000 is 25.5% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£282/sq ft) was about 68.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused.