The Squirrel Building, Apartment 4, 57 Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QA

The Squirrel Building is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Leicester (LE1 1QA). It has a recorded floor area of 36 m² (around 388 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. At 36 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across The Squirrel Building (36–79 m²). The building's EPC ratings span F to B across 22 units on file. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since November 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 36 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 78 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 £141,000 is 11.9% above the 2005 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£325/sq ft) was about 52.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.