Camroyd, Higher Commons Lane, Balderstone, Blackburn, BB2 7LR

Camroyd is a two-bedroom detached house in Balderstone, Blackburn, Blackburn (BB2 7LR). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in July 2015 the rating was F, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 96), a 2-band jump.

At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 2016–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£354/sq ft) was about 117.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £480,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.