21 Stapleton Lane, Kirkby Mallory, Leicester, LE9 7QJ

21 Stapleton Lane is a two-bedroom detached house in Kirkby Mallory, Leicester, Leicester (LE9 7QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since October 2010. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced Leicester HPI: 1.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £363,000 is 13.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£303/sq ft) was about 17.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 98 m² it sits well below the postcode median (165 m² across 5 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. Sold January 2021 for £320,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.