42 Lichfield Road, Stafford, ST17 4LL

42 Lichfield Road is an end-of-terrace house in Stafford (ST17 4LL). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2023) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in October 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good. At 40 m² this is the 5th smallest of 27 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 27–263 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (81 versus a worst of 25).

Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £147,000 is 51% below the 2021 sale of £300,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£697/sq ft) was about 675% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (93 m² across 26 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Sold June 2021 for £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2019.