The Chimes, Apartment 11, 18 Vicar Lane, Sheffield, S1 2EH

The Chimes is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sheffield (S1 2EH). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (February 2022) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in March 2012 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity. At 55 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 46 units on EPC record in The Chimes, where floor areas span 36–123 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the top. Other recorded features include a balcony.

Sold January 2021 for £125,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. At 55 m² it's 29.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (78 m² median across 45 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs).