42 Ashley Road, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1LQ

42 Ashley Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Newton (DT10 1LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2025) returns a high B (score 86), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in August 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 115). Main heating runs on electricity. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 72 m² it's 26.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (98 m² median across 25 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Last sale on file: £310,000 in December 2021. Across the public record there are 5 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: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£400/sq ft) was about 73.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.