7 Essington, North Tawton, EX20 2EX

7 Essington is a two-bedroom detached house in North Tawton (EX20 2EX). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (July 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump.

At 65 m² it sits well below the postcode median (182 m² across 14 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £252,500 in July 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£361/sq ft) was about 179.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.