40a, St Johns, Worcester, WR2 5AJ

40a is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Worcester (WR2 5AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 18 m² (around 194 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (April 2010); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 98), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 18 m² it sits well below the postcode median (52 m² across 30 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. Across 1996–2014, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £118,000 sits 57.3% above the 2014 sale of £75,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£387/sq ft) was about 167.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in June 2014 and unlisted since — roughly 12 years.