74 Church Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5AE

74 Church Street is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Bishops Castle (SY9 5AE). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since August 1999, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (80 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £284,000 sits 118.5% above the 1999 sale of £130,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£84/sq ft) was about 25.7% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.