42 Almshouse Lane, Newmillerdam, Wakefield, WF2 7ST

42 Almshouse Lane is a four-bedroom detached house in Newmillerdam, Wakefield, Wakefield (WF2 7ST). It has a recorded floor area of 167 m² (around 1798 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since December 2020. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 167 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 96.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.