5a, High Street, Overstrand, Cromer, NR27 0AB

5a is a detached house in Overstrand, Cromer, Cromer (NR27 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an F (score 29), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump.

At 130 m² it's 22.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 49 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold September 2021 for £425,000. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£304/sq ft) was about 49.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.