South View Cottage, Main Street, Blackawton, Totnes, TQ9 7BG

South View Cottage is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Blackawton, Totnes, Totnes (TQ9 7BG). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2025) shows a C (score 71). When first surveyed in March 2020 the rating was G, the property has climbed 4 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 99), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 128 m² it's 26.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (101 m² median across 15 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 73% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £490,000 is 24.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£287/sq ft) was about 53.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £395,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.