42c, Montpellier Spa Road, Cheltenham, GL50 1UL

42c is a three-bedroom detached house in Cheltenham (GL50 1UL). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 832 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2009) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. The latest certificate is from August 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 77 m² this is the 71st smallest of 100 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 25–320 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to B, with this unit at the top.

Held since January 1996 — 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. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £362,000 sits 206.8% above the 1996 sale of £118,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£142/sq ft) was about 45.9% below the postcode norm.