9 Ellacombe Road, Torquay, TQ1 3AT

9 Ellacombe Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Torquay (TQ1 3AT). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. At 95 m² this is the 34th smallest of 39 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 25–107 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (February 2019) shows a C (score 70). When first surveyed in February 2017 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Poor.

At 95 m² it's 26.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 38 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 84% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £186,000 is 16.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£156/sq ft) was about 20.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £160,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.