25a, High Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BE

25a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishops Castle (SY9 5BE). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an F (score 32), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since October 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

One historical planning record sits against the property in 2023. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 66 m² it sits well below the postcode median (96 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £225,000 in February 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £256,000 is 13.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£317/sq ft) was about 87.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.