Birch Court, Flat 2, Boscobel Crescent, Wolverhampton, WV1 1QJ

Birch Court is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Wolverhampton (WV1 1QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2023) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2015 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 72 m² this is the 30th smallest of 32 units on EPC record in Birch Court, where floor areas span 34–73 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 72 m² it's 16.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (62 m² median across 31 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £113,000 sits 242.4% above the 2016 sale of £33,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£43/sq ft) was about 34.8% below the postcode norm. On the market in January 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years.