5 Birdcombe Road, Westlea, Swindon, SN5 7BJ

5 Birdcombe Road is an end-of-terrace house in Westlea, Swindon, Swindon (SN5 7BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 34 m² (around 366 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 34 m² it sits well below the postcode median (66 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £145,000 in December 2021. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£396/sq ft) was about 107.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.