2a, Victoria Road, Stirchley, Birmingham, B30 2LS

2a is a one-bedroom detached house in Stirchley, Birmingham, Birmingham (B30 2LS). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 425 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 40 m² this is the 15th smallest of 40 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 17–106 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 58). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1998 — that's 28 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. Today's modelled estimate of £122,000 sits 430.4% above the 1998 sale of £23,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£54/sq ft) was about 66.6% below the postcode norm. At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 39 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 90% of similar EPCs).