15 Briar Lea Road, Mortimer Common, Reading, RG7 3SA

15 Briar Lea Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Mortimer Common, Reading, Reading (RG7 3SA). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 75 m² it sits well below the postcode median (127 m² across 14 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 2016. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £504,000 is 27.6% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£489/sq ft) was about 131.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 11 years ago, in September 2015.