3 Barring Street, Upton, Northampton, NN5 4DD

3 Barring Street is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Upton, Northampton, Northampton (NN5 4DD). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007 onwards and council tax band C. At 56 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 29 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 54–229 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (November 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 56 m² it's 26.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (76 m² median across 28 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 (£262/sq ft) was about 16.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £158,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.