1 Pooks Cottage, Hayfield Road, Exbourne, Okehampton, EX20 3RS

1 Pooks Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Exbourne, Okehampton, Okehampton (EX20 3RS). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (June 2009); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 59 m² it sits well below the postcode median (134 m² across 5 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. 7 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent and conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Last changed hands 12 years ago, in February 2014. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1996–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £228,000 is 40.4% above the 2014 sale price.