Top Floor Flat, 43 Fernthorpe Road, London, SW16 6DP

Top Floor Flat is a mid-terrace house in London (SW16 6DP). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (November 2019) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Good and main heating went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 54 m² it's 15.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 27 EPCs). 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 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£559/sq ft) was about 91.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2022 for £325,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.