1 Cranshaw Drive, Blackburn, BB1 8RE

1 Cranshaw Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Blackburn (BB1 8RE). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a G (score 17), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 3 certificates since August 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

It hasn't traded since May 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 70 m² it's 18.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (59 m² median across 38 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £155,000 sits 260.5% above the 1996 sale of £43,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£57/sq ft) was about 54.5% below the postcode norm.