The Emporium, Flat 4, High Street, Winchcombe, Cheltenham, GL54 5LJ

The Emporium is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Winchcombe, Cheltenham, Cheltenham (GL54 5LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 506 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. At 47 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across The Emporium (47–93 m²). The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sold October 2021 for £125,000. 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. At 47 m² it's 26.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 23 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £151,000 is 20.8% above the 2021 sale price.