26 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford, ST17 4BP

26 Wolverhampton Road is a mid-terrace house in Stafford (ST17 4BP). It has a recorded floor area of 38 m² (around 409 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average, lighting went from Average to Good and main heating went from Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 38 m² it sits well below the postcode median (83 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £129,000 sits 61.3% above the 2022 sale of £80,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£196/sq ft) was about 24.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £80,000 in November 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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.