5 Bay View Court, Bay View Road, Northam, Bideford, EX39 1TJ

5 Bay View Court is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Northam, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 1TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (90 m² across 14 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£308/sq ft) was about 51.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £192,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.