Birchwood View Cottage, Abbots Bromley Road, Hoar Cross, Burton On Trent, DE13 8RA

Birchwood View Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Hoar Cross, Burton-On-Trent, Burton On Trent (DE13 8RA). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1432 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2026) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 3 certificates since January 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views and attached land beyond the plot. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 133 m² it sits well below the postcode median (223 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£506/sq ft) was about 76.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £725,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.