Below Decks, Lower Contour Road, Kingswear, Dartmouth, TQ6 0AL

Below Decks is a three-bedroom detached house in Kingswear, Dartmouth, Dartmouth (TQ6 0AL). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2024) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2011); the latest reading is 3 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include notable views and a conservatory.

At 110 m² it's 17.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (94 m² median across 46 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £420,000 in November 2020. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.3% per year.