5 Shouldham Street, Westminster, London, W1H 5FH

5 Shouldham Street is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Westminster, London, London (W1H 5FH). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced London HPI: 1.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£1,695/sq ft) was about 28.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 111 m² it's 20.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (140 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 10 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £2,025,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.