Darwens Farm, Chipping Road, Chaigley, Clitheroe, BB7 3LT

Darwens Farm is a detached house in Chaigley, Clitheroe, Clitheroe (BB7 3LT). It has a recorded floor area of 204 m² (around 2196 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £745,000 is 23.4% below the 2021 sale of £972,800, a rare downward gap that often correlates with deferred maintenance or unfinished works. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£443/sq ft) was about 109.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 204 m² the property is well over the postcode median (122 m² across 13 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £972,800. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.