14 Falmer Road, Waltham Forest, London, E17 3BJ

14 Falmer Road is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Waltham Forest, London, London (E17 3BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 20 m² (around 215 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. At 20 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (20–168 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (50 versus a best of 84). Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2017); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68).

At 20 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,997/sq ft) was about 297.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £430,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.