The Chimes, Vicarage Drive, Stramshall, Uttoxeter, ST14 5DL

The Chimes is a detached house in Stramshall, Uttoxeter, Uttoxeter (ST14 5DL). It has a recorded floor area of 145 m² (around 1561 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1991-1995. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 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 145 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 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. Today's modelled estimate of £369,000 sits 310% above the 1999 sale of £90,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£58/sq ft) was about 69.9% below the postcode norm.