Melville House, Station Road, Baschurch, Shrewsbury, SY4 2BG

Melville House is a detached house in Baschurch, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury (SY4 2BG). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since September 2016. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 33 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2020–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2418.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £409,000 is 16.9% above the 2022 sale price. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £350,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.