3 Church Road, Biddestone, Chippenham, SN14 7DP

3 Church Road is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Biddestone, Chippenham, Chippenham (SN14 7DP). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 104), a 4-band jump.

Held since December 1996 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 73 m² it sits well below the postcode median (235 m² across 4 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. Today's modelled estimate of £296,000 sits 438.2% above the 1996 sale of £55,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 52.6% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.