18a, Market Square, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BN

18a is a six-bedroom mid-terrace house in Bishops Castle (SY9 5BN). It has a recorded floor area of 224 m² (around 2411 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2012) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from June 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 224 m² the property is well over the postcode median (64 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £332,000 is 44.3% above the 2005 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£95/sq ft) was about 44.9% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2007.