40 Newport Road, Stafford, ST16 1BH
About 40 Newport Road
40 Newport Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Stafford (ST16 1BH). It has a recorded floor area of 196 m² (around 2110 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.
At 196 m² the property is well over the postcode median (149 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 19.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£189/sq ft) was about 20.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £398,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms2
- Dining roomYes
- CloakroomYes
Outside
- Private gardenYes
- DrivewayYes
Building
- Period featuresYes
- RefurbishedYes
Energy performance
40 Newport Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Rating
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Planning history
40 Newport Road has no planning applications on record.
A planning report still maps activity across the surrounding area and reads this property's extension & conversion potential.
Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£420,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 19.7% per year over 4 years.
£398,000
Growth on file: 19.7% per year over 4 years.
Sales timeline
11 August 2022Most recent
£398,000
+99.0%over 3 years11 October 2018
£200,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in ST16 1BH: £350,000 (2025–2019).
Nearby sales in ST16 1BH
Versus other Newport Road homes
40 Newport Road outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,031
Street avg £1,877
Floor Area
196 m²
Street avg 149 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 8.3 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
7/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Kingsway — bus stop.
Closest school
0.4 km
Blessed William Howard Catholic School. 18 schools nearby.
Go deeper on the local area
A Local Area report breaks down crime, transport links, schools and air quality in depth.
Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
50.8dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.4dB







