5 Barnfield Avenue, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5HT

5 Barnfield Avenue is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Wem, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury (SY4 5HT). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a conservatory and outbuildings.

At 44 m² it sits well below the postcode median (66 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £205,000 in October 2021. Across the public record there are 5 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 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£433/sq ft) was about 96.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.