21 Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
About 21 Vespasian Road
21 Vespasian Road is a detached house in Southampton (SO18 1AY). It has a recorded floor area of 122 m² (around 1313 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.
At 122 m² it's 25.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (97 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£274/sq ft) was about 19.6% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £360,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Energy performance
21 Vespasian Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
Planning history
21 Vespasian Road has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
5applications of note in the surrounding area
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£378,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£360,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
30 August 2022Most recent
£360,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SO18 1AY: £315,000 (2024–2023).
Nearby sales in SO18 1AY
31d, Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
Sold Oct 2024
£320,00031c, Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
Sold Jul 2024
£315,00031b, Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
Sold Jul 2024
£305,00031a, Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
Sold Jun 2024
£315,00029 Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1AY
Sold Sept 2023
£490,000
Versus other Vespasian Road homes
21 Vespasian Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£2,951
Street avg £3,726
Floor Area
122 m²
Street avg 106 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.8 t/year
Street avg 2.9 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
6/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Rampart Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Bitterne Manor Primary School. 39 schools nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
The full report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.7dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
44.3dB







