5 Battershall Close, Plymouth, PL9 9UU

5 Battershall Close is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Plymouth (PL9 9UU). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 1997 — that's 29 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. Today's modelled estimate of £222,000 sits 303.6% above the 1997 sale of £55,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£73/sq ft) was about 57.7% below the postcode norm. At 70 m² it's 24.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (56 m² median across 33 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.