8 Earlswood Drive, Alderholt, Fordingbridge, SP6 3EN

8 Earlswood Drive is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Alderholt, Fordingbridge, Fordingbridge (SP6 3EN). It has a recorded floor area of 38 m² (around 409 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 3-band jump.

At 38 m² it sits well below the postcode median (86 m² across 38 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. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£469/sq ft) was about 131.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £192,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.