20 Fore Street, Northam, Bideford, EX39 1AW

20 Fore Street is a semi-detached house in Northam, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 1AW). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 56), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 79 m² this is the 21st smallest of 43 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 35–173 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C across 43 units on file.

Today's modelled estimate of £130,000 is 53.6% below the 2022 sale of £280,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£329/sq ft) was about 129.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £280,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2025.