4 The Beeches, Saunders Lane, Awbridge, Romsey, SO51 0GP

4 The Beeches is a semi-detached house in Awbridge, Romsey, Romsey (SO51 0GP). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since June 1999, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 94 m² it's 26.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (129 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £363,000 sits 188.1% above the 1999 sale of £126,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£125/sq ft) was about 60.9% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.