The Old Rectory, Essington, North Tawton, EX20 2EX

The Old Rectory is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in North Tawton (EX20 2EX). It has a recorded floor area of 388 m² (around 4176 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 388 m² the property is well over the postcode median (161 m² across 14 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. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 9 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 1 refused. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £935,000. 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£224/sq ft) was about 71.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.