The Palms, Church Street, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1DB

The Palms is a mid-terrace house in Sturminster Newton (DT10 1DB). It has a recorded floor area of 162 m² (around 1744 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80).

At 162 m² the property is well over the postcode median (83 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£301/sq ft) was about 84.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £525,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.