Pyethorn Farmhouse, Whalley Road, Wilpshire, Blackburn, BB1 9LF

Pyethorn Farmhouse is a three-bedroom detached house in Wilpshire, Blackburn, Blackburn (BB1 9LF). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1991 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include notable views. Period features are noted in the property record. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 185 m² the property is well over the postcode median (116 m² across 18 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £631,000 is 19.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£266/sq ft) was about 95.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £530,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.