85 Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0HQ

85 Fore Street is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Topsham, Exeter, Exeter (EX3 0HQ). It has a recorded floor area of 135 m² (around 1453 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since August 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 135 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £660,000. 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: tree works approved in 2023. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£454/sq ft) was about 138.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.