Roscarrack, Polbreen Lane, St Agnes, TR5 0UL

Roscarrack is a detached house in St Agnes (TR5 0UL). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2013) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (90 m² across 12 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. Today's modelled estimate of £313,000 sits 458.9% above the 1996 sale of £56,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£93/sq ft) was about 65.4% below the postcode norm.