5 Myrtle Street, Appledore, Bideford, EX39 1PH

5 Myrtle Street is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Appledore, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 1PH). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump.

At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 18 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 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£249/sq ft) was about 25.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £337,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.