2 Penny Street, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1DE

2 Penny Street is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sturminster Newton (DT10 1DE). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a balcony and notable views. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on wood logs.

At 43 m² it sits well below the postcode median (86 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £140,000 in March 2021. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: change of use to residential approved in 2016. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £155,000 is 10.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£302/sq ft) was about 40.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.