Barrington House, Flat 8b, Barrington Road, Torquay, TQ1 2QJ

Barrington House is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Torquay (TQ1 2QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 40 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Barrington House (40–112 m²). The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows a C (score 74). When first surveyed in April 2009 the rating was G, the property has climbed 4 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (66 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £96,000 in October 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £118,000 is 22.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£223/sq ft) was about 85.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: tree works refused in 2010.