7 Barnett Street is a two-bedroom detached house in Stourbridge (DY8 5QL). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 4-band jump. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
At 69 m² it's 24.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (91 m² median across 23 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£330/sq ft) was about 129% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused. Sold December 2022 for £245,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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7 Barnett Street sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
A recent planning application at 7 Barnett Street was refused — worth checking the council file.
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£244,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£245,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
7 Barnett Street is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£3,551
Street avg £2,091
Floor Area
69 m²
Street avg 92 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
3/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.8 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
50.8dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Erection of 1no detached dwelling and garage
Erection of 1no. dwelling alongside existing dwelling and 1no. bungalow at rear
20 December 2022Most recent
£245,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 5QL: £230,000 (2024–2022).

Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
12.0 t/year
Street avg 4.6 t/year
DY8 5TE
no. 56 — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Fairhaven Primary School. 24 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
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