20 South Street, Oxford, OX2 0BE

20 South Street is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Oxford (OX2 0BE). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 96 m² the property is well over the postcode median (71 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2008–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£571/sq ft) was about 55.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £590,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.