Brookside, Flat 2, May Close, Swindon, SN2 1XB

Brookside is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Swindon (SN2 1XB). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. At 42 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across Brookside (16–42 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (53 versus a best of 76). The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 42 m² it's 26.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (57 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£254/sq ft) was about 30.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £115,000 in April 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.