Cliff Cottage, 14 Foxholes Hill, Exmouth, EX8 2DF

Cliff Cottage is a detached house in Exmouth (EX8 2DF). It has a recorded floor area of 168 m² (around 1808 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2017) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2017); the latest reading is one band lower. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Today's modelled estimate of £694,000 is 53.7% below the 2021 sale of £1,500,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£829/sq ft) was about 271.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 168 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 37 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 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £1,500,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.