18 Hawthorn Road, Emneth, Wisbech, PE14 8AP

18 Hawthorn Road is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Emneth, Wisbech, Wisbech (PE14 8AP). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2010) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 60), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 51 m² it sits well below the postcode median (81 m² across 21 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £118,000 sits 321.4% above the 2000 sale of £28,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£51/sq ft) was about 65% below the postcode norm.