The Cedars, 11 Westcliffe Road, Southport, PR8 2BW

The Cedars is a two-bedroom detached house in Southport (PR8 2BW). It has a recorded floor area of 188 m² (around 2024 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (July 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 188 m² the property is well over the postcode median (144 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£123/sq ft) was about 73.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2021 for £248,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.