17 St Martins, Marlborough, SN8 1AR

17 St Martins is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Marlborough (SN8 1AR). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. 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 (April 2025) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since July 2010. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and main heating went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 2.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£352/sq ft) was about 22.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 66 m² it's 18.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (81 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.