108a, Castle Street, Bolton, BL2 1JL

108a is a semi-detached house in Bolton (BL2 1JL). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows an F (score 21), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump.

Held since July 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (24 m² across 35 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 £235,000 sits 245.6% above the 1998 sale of £68,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£45/sq ft) was about 71.5% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2009. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.