2 Barker Road, Wirral, CH61 3XH

2 Barker Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Wirral (CH61 3XH). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 829 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

At 77 m² it sits well below the postcode median (126 m² across 6 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 £384,000 is 18.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£392/sq ft) was about 55.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £325,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.