48 Ludlow Road, Guildford, GU2 7NW

48 Ludlow Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Guildford (GU2 7NW). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2023) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump.

Held since October 2000 — that's 26 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 93 m² it's 21% larger than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 32 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £571,000 sits 249.2% above the 2000 sale of £163,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£163/sq ft) was about 49.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2008. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.