Southcote, Lacock Road, Corsham, SN13 9HS

Southcote is a three-bedroom detached house in Corsham (SN13 9HS). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 10 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. 5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch, tree works and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£582/sq ft) was about 65% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2021 for £827,170. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.