16 Ash Lea, Minsterley, Shrewsbury, SY5 0BU

16 Ash Lea is a detached house in Minsterley, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury (SY5 0BU). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since January 2015. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 57 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £304,000 sits 253.5% above the 1998 sale of £86,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£62/sq ft) was about 48% below the postcode norm.