Flat 15, 4 Furnace Hill, Sheffield, S3 7AF

Flat 15 is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Sheffield (S3 7AF). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2019) shows an F (score 30), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since February 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 57), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 43 m² it sits well below the postcode median (65 m² across 9 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. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£270/sq ft) was about 72.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £125,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.