1 Pope Iron Road, Worcester, WR1 3HB

1 Pope Iron Road is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Worcester (WR1 3HB). It has a recorded floor area of 23 m² (around 253 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2009) shows a G (score 16), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 38). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from April 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

Held since March 2000 — that's 26 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 23 m² it sits well below the postcode median (66 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £172,000 sits 186.7% above the 2000 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£238/sq ft) was about 57.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.