1 East View Cottages, Longmeadow Road, Lympstone, Exmouth, EX8 5LF

1 East View Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Lympstone, Exmouth, Exmouth (EX8 5LF). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (May 2020) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 3% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£444/sq ft) was about 70.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 68 m² it sits well below the postcode median (130 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £325,000 in June 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: subdivision approved in 2003. Past consents include subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.