4 Home Cottages, Frieze Hill, Taunton, TA1 1HB

4 Home Cottages is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Frieze Hill, Taunton, Taunton (TA1 1HB). It has a recorded floor area of 109 m² (around 1173 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 109 m² the property is well over the postcode median (66 m² across 5 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. Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£199/sq ft) was about 90.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £233,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.