5 Colston Court, West Street, Carshalton, SM5 2QB

5 Colston Court is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Carshalton (SM5 2QB). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows a G (score 4), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (April 2021); the latest reading is one band lower. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 65 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 63–73 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (4 versus a best of 71). Other recorded features include a conservatory.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£393/sq ft) was about 69.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £275,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.