1 Old Church Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Water Orton, Birmingham, Birmingham (B46 1NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.
At 129 m² it's 26.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2026. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £487,000 is 17.3% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£299/sq ft) was about 37.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2020 at £415,000.
1 Old Church Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Removal of existing rear conservatory and replace with proposed single storey rear extension. Existing outbuilding to have the roof raised and an additional attached semi enclosed log store.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£487,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£415,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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1 Old Church Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£3,217
Street avg £2,817
Floor Area
129 m²
Street avg 101 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Dog Inn — bus stop.
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Full planning data for 1 Old Church Road, Water Orton, Birmingham, B46 1NJ
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28 August 2020Most recent
£415,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in B46 1NJ: £310,000 (2025–2018).
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Sold Oct 2025
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Sold Aug 2022
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Sold Jan 2022
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Sold Sept 2019
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Sold Sept 2018
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Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.9 t/year
Street avg 4.5 t/year
B46 1ER
Closest school
0.7 km
Water Orton Primary School. 13 schools nearby.