5 St Marys Mews, Greenway Road, St Marychurch, Torquay, TQ1 4NJ

5 St Marys Mews is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St. Marychurch, Torquay, Torquay (TQ1 4NJ). 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. At 36 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 8 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 35–76 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Across 2000–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 23.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £156,000 is 17.5% below the 2008 sale of £189,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 142.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Held since January 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 36 m² it sits well below the postcode median (74 m² across 27 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.