1 East Park Road, Blackburn, BB1 8DW

1 East Park Road is a semi-detached house in Blackburn (BB1 8DW). It has a recorded floor area of 327 m² (around 3520 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since November 2013. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 327 m² the property is well over the postcode median (144 m² across 45 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£114/sq ft) was about 62% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.