Ashgrove, Flat 13, 139 Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1ET

Ashgrove is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Malvern (WR14 1ET). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2024) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. Main heating runs on electricity. At 40 m² this is the 7th smallest of 27 units on EPC record in Ashgrove, where floor areas span 36–58 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (84 versus a worst of 59).

It hasn't traded since February 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 40 m² it's 20% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (50 m² median across 63 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £120,000 sits 224.3% above the 1997 sale of £37,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£86/sq ft) was about 52% below the postcode norm.