3a St Thomas Court, Cowick Street, Exeter, EX4 1AJ

3a St Thomas Court is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Exeter (EX4 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. At 90 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across the building (51–90 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 11 units on file. The latest certificate (October 2017) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2017 the rating was G, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 90 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£172/sq ft) was about 39.7% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £167,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.