The Old Bungalow, Finkle Street Lane, Wortley, Sheffield, S35 7DH

The Old Bungalow is a three-bedroom detached house in Wortley, Sheffield, Sheffield (S35 7DH). It has a recorded floor area of 153 m² (around 1647 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Held since June 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 153 m² the property is well over the postcode median (101 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £450,000 sits 181.3% above the 1999 sale of £160,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£97/sq ft) was about 58.4% below the postcode norm.