4 Snelsmore Barns, Snelsmore, Newbury, RG14 3BU

4 Snelsmore Barns is a four-bedroom detached house in Snelsmore, Newbury, Newbury (RG14 3BU). It has a recorded floor area of 215 m² (around 2314 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (May 2021); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 215 m² the property is well over the postcode median (163 m² across 8 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. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£337/sq ft) was about 104.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £780,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.