1 Birchwood Road, Malvern, WR14 1LD
About 1 Birchwood Road
1 Birchwood Road is a detached house in Malvern (WR14 1LD). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 3-band jump.
At 88 m² it's 27.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (122 m² median across 8 EPCs). 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 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £319,000 is 45% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£232/sq ft) was about 41.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £220,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Energy performance
1 Birchwood Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
Planning history
1 Birchwood Road has an approved extension on the planning record.
- May 2022ExtensionFullIn report
Two storey extension
- Documents
- 12 docs on file
- Reference
- 21/02155/HP
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- Larger development activity nearby
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£319,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£220,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
2 November 2021Most recent
£220,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in WR14 1LD: £259,950 (2023–2014).
Nearby sales in WR14 1LD
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What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby
Versus other Birchwood Road homes
1 Birchwood Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£2,500
Street avg £2,151
Floor Area
88 m²
Street avg 116 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.1 t/year
Street avg 4.6 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Tanhouse Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
0.5 km
Dyson Perrins CofE Academy. 8 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.5dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.0dB