Orchard View, Belt Drove, Elm, Wisbech, PE14 0BA

Orchard View is a detached house in Elm, Wisbech, Wisbech (PE14 0BA). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an F (score 28), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since October 2014. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while lighting dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (106 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £428,000 sits 74.7% above the 2003 sale of £245,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£158/sq ft) was about 15.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.