14 Kennet Close, West End, Southampton, SO18 3JY

14 Kennet Close is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in West End, Southampton, Southampton (SO18 3JY). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (55 m² across 30 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £140,000. 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 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £163,000 is 16.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£352/sq ft) was about 54.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.