The Green Cottage, Vicarage Lane, Barlaston, Stoke On Trent, ST12 9AG

The Green Cottage is a detached house in Barlaston, Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke On Trent (ST12 9AG). It has a recorded floor area of 209 m² (around 2250 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 4 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 209 m² the property is well over the postcode median (141 m² across 9 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. Sold April 2022 for £750,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £832,000 is 10.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£333/sq ft) was about 46.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.