3 Brunswick Close, Barnsley, S71 1NQ

3 Brunswick Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Barnsley (S71 1NQ). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 579 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2011) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

It hasn't traded since December 1999, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 54 m² it's 26.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 17 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £154,000 sits 258.1% above the 1999 sale of £43,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£74/sq ft) was about 42.5% below the postcode norm.