Downside House, Southward Lane, Aldbourne, Marlborough, SN8 2DF

Downside House is a five-bedroom detached house in Aldbourne, Marlborough, Marlborough (SN8 2DF). It has a recorded floor area of 262 m² (around 2820 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (February 2023) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 262 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 4 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 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£426/sq ft) was about 90% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Last sale on file: £1,200,000 in June 2023.