Grove House, Flat 9, Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0HF

Grove House is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Topsham, Exeter, Exeter (EX3 0HF). It has a recorded floor area of 32 m² (around 344 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 32 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Grove House (32–92 m²). The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 20 units on file. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 32 m² it sits well below the postcode median (53 m² across 42 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £149,000 in October 2021. Across the public record there are 8 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 6.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£433/sq ft) was about 58.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.