Wellswood House, Lincombe Hill Road, Torquay, TQ1 2HN

Wellswood House is a semi-detached house in Torquay (TQ1 2HN). It has a recorded floor area of 233 m² (around 2508 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

At 233 m² the property is well over the postcode median (37 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£239/sq ft) was about 76.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £600,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.