9 Barracuda Flats, Shutta Road, Looe, PL13 1BJ

9 Barracuda Flats is an end-of-terrace house in Looe (PL13 1BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 28 m² (around 301 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 28 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (28–63 m²). On EPC score it ranks first in the building (49 versus a worst of 39). The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 28 m² it sits well below the postcode median (69 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£396/sq ft) was about 87.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £119,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.