7 Birdlip Farm, Birdlip, Gloucester, GL4 8JH

7 Birdlip Farm is a semi-detached house in Birdlip, Gloucester, Gloucester (GL4 8JH). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2011) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 47). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £499,000 sits 187.6% above the 1997 sale of £173,500. At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (82 m² across 45 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs).