Beech House, Upper Braddons Hill Road, Torquay, TQ1 1QE

Beech House is a six-bedroom detached house in Torquay (TQ1 1QE). It has a recorded floor area of 309 m² (around 3326 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump.

At 309 m² the property is well over the postcode median (41 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£244/sq ft) was about 41.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £810,000 in April 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.