16 Wood Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BD

16 Wood Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Ashurst, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 7BD). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and attached land beyond the plot. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 81 m² it sits well below the postcode median (121 m² across 26 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £638,000 is 15% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£637/sq ft) was about 185.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £555,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.