Bank Cottage, Frog Lane, Wheaton Aston, Stafford, ST19 9NW

Bank Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Wheaton Aston, Stafford, Stafford (ST19 9NW). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (July 2017) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 108), a 3-band jump.

At 69 m² it sits well below the postcode median (149 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2016–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 57.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £287,000 is 33.5% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 37.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in August 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.