Sovereign House, Flat 7, 52 The Terrace, Torquay, TQ1 1DE

Sovereign House is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Torquay (TQ1 1DE). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. At 144 m² this is the 8th smallest of 9 units on EPC record in Sovereign House, where floor areas span 77–174 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the top. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 78), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86).

At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 1 is the typical count. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include partial demolition and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£294/sq ft) was about 30.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2021 for £455,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.