156 Shear Brow, Blackburn, BB1 8DZ

156 Shear Brow is a mid-terrace house in Blackburn (BB1 8DZ). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2013) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £174,000 sits 411.8% above the 1997 sale of £34,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£22/sq ft) was about 53.8% below the postcode norm. At 141 m² it's 25.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (113 m² median across 32 EPCs).