8 Ashdown Road, Fawley, Southampton, SO45 1EF

8 Ashdown Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Fawley, Southampton, Southampton (SO45 1EF). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2013) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £262,000 sits 254.1% above the 1999 sale of £74,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£115/sq ft) was about 51.7% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 60 m² it's 30% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 12 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs).