22 Beech Road, St Austell, PL25 4TS

22 Beech Road is a four-bedroom detached house in St Austell (PL25 4TS). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since August 2014. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, 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 159 m² it's 23.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (129 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £328,000 sits 260.4% above the 2000 sale of £91,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 58.9% below the postcode norm.