9 Locksley Gardens, Birdwell, Barnsley, S70 5SU

9 Locksley Gardens is a four-bedroom detached house in Birdwell, Barnsley, Barnsley (S70 5SU). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 38 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £359,000 is 19.7% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£199/sq ft) was about 37.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £300,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.