187 Woodrow Road, Forest, Melksham, SN12 7RF

187 Woodrow Road is a six-bedroom detached house in Forest, Melksham, Melksham (SN12 7RF). It has a recorded floor area of 360 m² (around 3875 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. 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 (June 2025) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

It hasn't traded since May 2005, a hold of 21 years that's notably long for the area. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 10.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £859,000 sits 90.9% above the 2005 sale of £450,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£116/sq ft) was about 55.6% below the postcode norm. At 360 m² the property is well over the postcode median (129 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, new windows and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations.