6 Dashwoods Lane, Bicknoller, Taunton, TA4 4EQ

6 Dashwoods Lane is a three-bedroom detached house in Bicknoller, Taunton, Taunton (TA4 4EQ). It has a recorded floor area of 227 m² (around 2443 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2025) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since February 2015. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include a conservatory and attached land beyond the plot.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£307/sq ft) was about 23.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 227 m² the property is well over the postcode median (153 m² across 9 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. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, solar panel installation and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £750,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.