The Knowles, Bridge Street, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 7BT

The Knowles is a semi-detached house in Horwich, Bolton, Bolton (BL6 7BT). It has a recorded floor area of 199 m² (around 2142 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2023) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump.

At 199 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 10 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£303/sq ft) was about 129.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £650,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.