These are the published Tamworth borough totals from the Valuation Office table CTSOP4.1, stock at 31 March 2025, covering 35,090 dwellings, not a total of our own. The borough and the town are effectively the same place: our own total over the ten census areas inside it comes to 35,110, a difference explained by the table rounding to the nearest ten.
41.4 per cent of the stock was built between 1973 and 1999 and 16.8 per cent in 2000 or later. 28.8 per cent dates from 1945 to 1972. 7.5 per cent predates 1919 and 5.4 per cent is inter war. Census 2021 table TS044 records 38.5 per cent of Tamworth households in semi detached houses, 26.6 per cent detached and 21.4 per cent terraced.
That is plasterboard, dot and dab, taping and jointing and over skim, with new build snagging on the later plots. The useful part for a plasterer is repetition: the same house type, the same ceiling, the same artex, street after street. A gallery of those rooms does real selling. Solid wall replaster and lime work sit in the old centre, on their own page.
Wilnecote East
92.8 per cent built 1973 to 1999 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
Plasterboard throughout. Over skim to take off the texture, board joint cracking, coving, and the occasional artex ceiling from a later refit. One price, repeated.
Glascote Heath
60.6 per cent built 1973 to 1999 and 37.5 per cent 1945 to 1972, with no pre 1945 stock recorded (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
Post war and overspill estate work. Ceilings overboarded and skimmed, walls skimmed over between tenants, patch repairs. The landlord customer as much as the homeowner.
Amington
56.8 per cent built 1973 to 1999 and 20.5 per cent since 2000, with 7.1 per cent pre 1919 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025). The Amington Green and Amington Hall Estate conservation areas sit here.
Patching, cracks and coving, plus new build snagging on the recent estates. The old core round Amington Green is where a full replaster turns up.
Central Tamworth
15.5 per cent pre 1919 and 29.7 per cent built since 2000 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025). The Tamworth Town conservation area covers part of it and carries an Article 4 Direction.
Solid wall replaster and lime work alongside flat conversions in the same postcode.
Bolehall
23.2 per cent inter war and 39.4 per cent built 1945 to 1972 (Valuation Office stock tables, 2025).
The nearest thing Tamworth has to a traditional semi belt. Lath and plaster ceilings, sand and cement backing with a gypsum finish, and render repairs on the original pebble dash.