Petitor Mews, Flat 5, Petitor Road, Torquay, TQ1 4QA

Petitor Mews is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Torquay (TQ1 4QA). It has a recorded floor area of 36 m² (around 388 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. At 36 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Petitor Mews (36–46 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (44 versus a best of 74). The latest certificate (July 2012) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 36 m² it sits well below the postcode median (65 m² across 20 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. Most recent transfer: February 2022 at £105,000. Across the public record there are 5 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 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£271/sq ft) was about 42% above the typical sold price in the postcode.