1 Victoria Mews, Eastgate Gardens, Taunton, TA1 1RD

1 Victoria Mews is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Taunton (TA1 1RD). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 94), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (60 m² across 48 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. Sold November 2022 for £98,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £137,000 is 39.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£217/sq ft) was about 24.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.