Rock House, Smithy Bank, Alton, Stoke On Trent, ST10 4AA

Rock House is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Alton, Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke On Trent (ST10 4AA). It has a recorded floor area of 137 m² (around 1475 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump.

At 137 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Sold September 2023 for £390,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 2002–2023, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£264/sq ft) was about 274.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.