24 Brook Street, Rishton, Blackburn, BB1 4DL

24 Brook Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Rishton, Blackburn, Blackburn (BB1 4DL). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 914 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2010) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 68). The latest certificate is from January 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 85 m² it's 16.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 45 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1998–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 18.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£109/sq ft) was about 62.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.