Hermitage Court, Flat 13, Knighten Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E1W 1PW

Hermitage Court is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Tower Hamlets, London, London (E1W 1PW). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band F. At 73 m² this is the 28th smallest of 82 units on EPC record in Hermitage Court, where floor areas span 38–160 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since August 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 73 m² it's 15.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 81 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £598,000 sits 273.8% above the 1997 sale of £160,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£204/sq ft) was about 41.8% below the postcode norm.