Flat 4, 5 Billetfield, Taunton, TA1 3NN

Flat 4 is a semi-detached house in Taunton (TA1 3NN). It has a recorded floor area of 32 m² (around 344 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 32 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (32–117 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (November 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 32 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 32 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. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £112,500. 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 2005–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£327/sq ft) was about 61% above the typical sold price in the postcode.