8 Orchard Gardens, Portskewett, Caldicot, NP26 5RZ

8 Orchard Gardens is a three-bedroom detached house in Portskewett, Caldicot, Caldicot (NP26 5RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 835 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2009) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

It hasn't traded since June 2010, a hold of 16 years that's notably long for the area. At 78 m² it's 16.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (93 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £330,000 sits 57.1% above the 2010 sale of £210,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£252/sq ft) was about 24% above the typical sold price in the postcode.