40a, Knowsley Road, Wilpshire, Blackburn, BB1 9PX

40a is a five-bedroom detached house in Wilpshire, Blackburn, Blackburn (BB1 9PX). It has a recorded floor area of 206 m² (around 2217 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The property has solar panels and an EV charger on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 206 m² the property is well over the postcode median (109 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£230/sq ft) was about 34.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £510,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.