1a, Guildford Road, Southend On Sea, SS2 5AR

1a is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southend On Sea (SS2 5AR). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). At 51 m² this is the 16th smallest of 57 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–118 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 57 units on file.

At 51 m² it sits well below the postcode median (90 m² across 56 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£255/sq ft) was about 85.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £140,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.