20 Ashford Road, Plymouth, PL4 7BN

20 Ashford Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Plymouth (PL4 7BN). It has a recorded floor area of 39 m² (around 420 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 39 m² this is the 5th smallest of 51 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 32–173 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (47 versus a best of 83). The latest certificate (July 2019) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 39 m² it sits well below the postcode median (60 m² across 50 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. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £239,000 is 14.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£495/sq ft) was about 372.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold April 2021 for £208,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.