20a, All Saints Road, Torquay, TQ1 3RD

20a is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Torquay (TQ1 3RD). It has a recorded floor area of 36 m² (around 388 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (April 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. At 36 m² this is the 5th smallest of 34 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 31–146 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (34 versus a best of 79).

Held since August 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 36 m² it sits well below the postcode median (74 m² across 33 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £107,000 sits 692.6% above the 1995 sale of £13,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 78.8% below the postcode norm.