1 Birchover Rise, Chaddesden, Derby, DE21 4QG

1 Birchover Rise is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Chaddesden, Derby, Derby (DE21 4QG). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 71 m² the property is well over the postcode median (49 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold June 2021 for £140,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £174,000 is 24.3% above the 2021 sale price.