1a, Auckland Road West, Southsea, PO5 3NY

1a is a five-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southsea (PO5 3NY). It has a recorded floor area of 197 m² (around 2118 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (December 2008) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 45). The latest certificate is from December 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in June 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 197 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 13 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £533,000 sits 240.1% above the 1998 sale of £156,700. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£74/sq ft) was about 59.2% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.