The Gables, Flat 1, 36 Meeting Street, Appledore, Bideford, EX39 1RJ

The Gables is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Appledore, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 1RJ). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 64 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across The Gables (64–75 m²). On EPC score it ranks last in the building (70 versus a best of 74). The latest certificate (August 2021) shows a C (score 70). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since August 2011. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor.

Sold February 2022 for £169,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. At 64 m² it's 21% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (81 m² median across 29 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£245/sq ft) was about 26.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.