8 The Hay, The Rock, Telford, TF3 5DP

8 The Hay is a three-bedroom detached house in The Rock, Telford, Telford (TF3 5DP). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (July 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 79 m² it's 27.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (109 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £276,000 is 28.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£253/sq ft) was about 34.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £215,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.