3 The Close, Main Street, Great Bourton, Banbury, OX17 1QU

3 The Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Great Bourton, Banbury, Banbury (OX17 1QU). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 58), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include a conservatory. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 127 m² it's 28.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (99 m² median across 5 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£302/sq ft) was about 32.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2022 for £412,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.