Knapp Villa, Knapp Road, Cheltenham, GL50 3QQ

Knapp Villa is a semi-detached house in Cheltenham (GL50 3QQ). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (December 2024) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump.

Held since March 1995 — 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. At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 51 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £467,000 sits 391.6% above the 1995 sale of £95,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£60/sq ft) was about 54.8% below the postcode norm. 5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.