Drifters Cottage, Ivetsey Bank Road, Bishops Wood, Stafford, ST19 9AE

Drifters Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Bishops Wood, Stafford, Stafford (ST19 9AE). It has a recorded floor area of 173 m² (around 1862 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an F (score 30), 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 oil.

At 173 m² the property is well over the postcode median (126 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 74% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £496,000 is 24.9% above the 2021 sale price. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £397,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.