Queens Bower Cottage, Alverstone Road, Queen Bower, Sandown, PO36 0NY

Queens Bower Cottage is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Queen Bower, Sandown, Sandown (PO36 0NY). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 721 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2015) shows a G (score 13), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2015); the latest reading is 3 bands lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

At 67 m² it sits well below the postcode median (125 m² across 6 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £557,000 is 31.1% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£589/sq ft) was about 183.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (May 2016).