3 Barlow Gardens, Plymouth, PL2 2SJ

3 Barlow Gardens is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Plymouth (PL2 2SJ). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band A. At 78 m² this is the 31st smallest of 44 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–137 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (68 versus a best of 81). The latest certificate (December 2015) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72). The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 78 m² it's 23.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (63 m² median across 43 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £183,000 is 31.7% above the 2005 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£166/sq ft) was about 18.1% below the postcode norm.