Bodley Cottage, Parracombe, Barnstaple, EX31 4PR

Bodley Cottage is a detached house in Parracombe, Barnstaple, Barnstaple (EX31 4PR). It has a recorded floor area of 181 m² (around 1948 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 181 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 5 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include partial demolition and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £712,000 is 29.5% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£282/sq ft) was about 27.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in June 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years.