1 Albemarle Road, Taunton, TA1 1BB

1 Albemarle Road is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Taunton (TA1 1BB). It has a recorded floor area of 147 m² (around 1582 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2010. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since February 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. At 147 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 39 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £273,000 sits 396.4% above the 1999 sale of £55,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 71% below the postcode norm.