19 Ballards Crescent, West Yelland, Barnstaple, EX31 3EU

19 Ballards Crescent is a four-bedroom detached house in West Yelland, Barnstaple, Barnstaple (EX31 3EU). It has a recorded floor area of 124 m² (around 1335 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2024) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (December 2020); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 124 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 37 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. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £346,000 is 34.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£193/sq ft) was about 23.5% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £257,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.