16 Barnes Close, Sarisbury Green, Southampton, SO31 7BU

16 Barnes Close is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sarisbury Green, Southampton, Southampton (SO31 7BU). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 83 m² it's 15.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (72 m² median across 37 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £285,000 is 42.5% above the 2014 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£224/sq ft) was about 16.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in August 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.