Castle View, Flat 4, 196 Upper Dock Street, Newport, NP20 1AD

Castle View is an end-of-terrace house in Newport (NP20 1AD). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. At 117 m² this is the 7th smallest of 8 units on EPC record in Castle View, where floor areas span 49–123 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£135/sq ft) was about 29% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £170,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.