6 Blackberry Grove, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8WL

6 Blackberry Grove is a detached house in Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, Cheltenham (GL52 8WL). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (January 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 1997 — that's 29 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 45 m² it sits well below the postcode median (65 m² across 41 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £314,000 sits 241.3% above the 1997 sale of £92,000.