5 Bedford Terrace, Long Bredy, Dorchester, DT2 9HW

5 Bedford Terrace is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Long Bredy, Dorchester, Dorchester (DT2 9HW). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 87 m² it's 15.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (76 m² median across 12 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£358/sq ft) was about 55.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £335,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.