Ben Jonson House, Flat 268, Barbican, City Of London, London, EC2Y 8DL

Ben Jonson House is an end-of-terrace house in City Of London, London, London (EC2Y 8DL). It has a recorded floor area of 91 m² (around 980 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2012) shows a G (score 13), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (June 2011); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced London HPI: 7.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £925,000 is 22.6% below the 2022 sale of £1,195,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,220/sq ft) was about 181.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 91 m² the property is well over the postcode median (65 m² across 35 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. Last sale on file: £1,195,000 in September 2022. 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: new windows approved in 2012. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.