24 School Lane, Barkby, Leicester, LE7 3QL

24 School Lane is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Barkby, Leicester, Leicester (LE7 3QL). It has a recorded floor area of 36 m² (around 388 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (July 2023) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 36 m² it sits well below the postcode median (81 m² across 11 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. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £172,000 is 32.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£335/sq ft) was about 41.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2021 for £129,950. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.