53 Bath Road, Banbury, OX16 0TU

53 Bath Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Banbury (OX16 0TU). It has a recorded floor area of 187 m² (around 2013 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2024) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£256/sq ft) was about 38.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 187 m² the property is well over the postcode median (125 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Most recent transfer was March 2025 at £515,000 — fresh data. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2008. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.