4a, Barne Road, Plymouth, PL5 1EF

4a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Plymouth (PL5 1EF). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since August 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 73 m² the property is well over the postcode median (48 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1997–2003, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £175,000 sits 146.5% above the 2003 sale of £71,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£90/sq ft) was about 43.4% below the postcode norm.