8 Water Lane, Durweston, Blandford Forum, DT11 0QB

8 Water Lane is a five-bedroom detached house in Durweston, Blandford Forum, Blandford Forum (DT11 0QB). It has a recorded floor area of 207 m² (around 2228 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows a G (score 7), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 37). Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 207 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include solar panel installation and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£240/sq ft) was about 21.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £535,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.