54 Barley Lane, Exeter, EX4 1TA

54 Barley Lane is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Exeter (EX4 1TA). It has a recorded floor area of 200 m² (around 2153 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since October 2011. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, lighting went from Poor to Good and main heating went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 200 m² the property is well over the postcode median (126 m² across 19 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£418/sq ft) was about 107.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £900,000 in October 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.