65a, St Michaels Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 2HA

65a is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Shrewsbury (SY1 2HA). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. At 51 m² this is the 7th smallest of 40 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 28–142 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 51 m² it's 22.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (66 m² median across 39 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £117,500. 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. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 59.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.