15 Orchard Close, Ketley, Telford, TF1 5HA

15 Orchard Close is a semi-detached house in Ketley, Telford, Telford (TF1 5HA). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 727 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 1997 — that's 29 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 68 m² it's 15.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (80 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £169,000 sits 293% above the 1997 sale of £43,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 57.9% below the postcode norm.