Namaste, Buckleigh Road, Westward Ho, Bideford, EX39 3PU

Namaste is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Westward Ho, Bideford, Bideford (EX39 3PU). It has a recorded floor area of 169 m² (around 1819 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2023) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

Held since January 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 169 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £382,000 sits 409.3% above the 1995 sale of £75,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£41/sq ft) was about 70.2% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.