Top Deck, Ridley Hill, Kingswear, Dartmouth, TQ6 0BY

Top Deck is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingswear, Dartmouth, Dartmouth (TQ6 0BY). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1511 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 140 m² it sits well below the postcode median (222 m² across 13 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a basement excavation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2006–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £907,000 is 33.4% above the 2008 sale price.