42 Welsh Walls, Oswestry, SY11 1AW

42 Welsh Walls is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Oswestry (SY11 1AW). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). Across 2012–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £232,000 is 25.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£195/sq ft) was about 32.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2021 for £185,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.