Victoria Institute, Apartment 23, Sansome Walk, Worcester, WR1 1DF

Victoria Institute is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Worcester (WR1 1DF). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. At 58 m² this is the 4th smallest of 25 units on EPC record in Victoria Institute, where floor areas span 44–132 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (84 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Sold September 2022 for £175,000. 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 1.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£280/sq ft) was about 37.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.