55 Wales Street, Winchester, SO23 0EY

55 Wales Street is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Winchester (SO23 0EY). It has a recorded floor area of 131 m² (around 1410 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. Other recorded features include a loft. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and main heating went from Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

At 131 m² the property is well over the postcode median (57 m² across 7 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. 10 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Today's modelled estimate of £518,000 is 15.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£319/sq ft) was about 18.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2022 for £450,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.