The Old Bakery, Station Road, Stogumber, Taunton, TA4 3TQ

The Old Bakery is a detached house in Stogumber, Taunton, Taunton (TA4 3TQ). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007-2011 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2024) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in December 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (125 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £185,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 5 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 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£312/sq ft) was about 16.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2009.