1 Watlings Court, Norwich, NR2 1HA

1 Watlings Court is a semi-detached house in Norwich (NR2 1HA). It has a recorded floor area of 39 m² (around 420 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. At 39 m² this is the 4th smallest of 21 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 4–88 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (50 versus a best of 83). The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (December 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 39 m² it's 27.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £150,000 in June 2021. Across the public record there are 7 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£357/sq ft) was about 84.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.