The Old School Rooms, Flat 17, Great Moor Street, Bolton, BL1 1NR

The Old School Rooms is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Bolton (BL1 1NR). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. At 94 m² this is the 25th smallest of 30 units on EPC record in The Old School Rooms, where floor areas span 32–109 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (10 versus a best of 72). The latest certificate (January 2018) shows a G (score 10), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (July 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and main heating went from Very Poor to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 51), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 94 m² the property is well over the postcode median (69 m² across 29 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. Today's modelled estimate of £147,000 sits 93.4% above the 2022 sale of £76,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£75/sq ft) was about 30.7% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £76,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.